The Bahraini government has sentenced eight human rights activists to life in prison, provoking mass protests for the first time since the government's crackdown. (All but one of those imprisoned by the Saudi-backed Sunni regimi are from the Shia majority.) Mackey is on top of it:
Bahrain’s state news agency reported that the men were convicted of “exchanging intelligence information with a terrorist organization working for a foreign country,” apparently a reference to Iran, which Bahrain’s government has accused of orchestrating demonstrations by Shiites to destabilize Sunni-ruled kingdoms in the region. Nabeel Rajab, the current president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, told Britain’s Channel 4 News that all the defendants had been abused in custody. “We know all of them were tortured,” he said. “Some were electrocuted, some were beaten, and some were sexually abused.”
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