Bahrain
Protests
Bahrain's
government has ordered a retrial in a civilian court for 20 medical staff
convicted for helping anti-government protesters.
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| Demonstrators have been trying to keep Bahrain's protest movement alive |
Last week,
a security court sentenced the group to up to 15 years in prison.
On
Wednesday, the court jailed 19 people over their alleged role in Shia-led
anti-regime protests.
It
sentenced 13 people to five years in prison and six people to one year, over
incidents including an attempted attack on a police station.
A wave of
mostly peaceful protests swept Sunni-ruled Bahrain in February and March, but
they were put down by force by the government, which called in troops from
neighbouring Gulf states.
However,
skirmishes have been reported regularly as protesters try to keep their
movement alive.
Among those
sentenced on Wednesday was a 16-year-old Iraqi football player, Zulfiqar Naji,
the Associated Press reported.
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