A Bahraini court has upheld a nine-year prison term imposed on the country’s most prominent opposition leader, Shi’ite cleric Sheikh Ali Salman, local media reported on Monday.
Salman, who leads the now closed al-Wefaq Islamic Society, was granted a retrial for inciting unrest “crimes of promoting change to the political system by force” in October for unspecified reasons.
He has been in custody since his conviction last June.
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