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Bahrain opposition leader acquitted in Qatar spy case: activists
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, June 21, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – A court in Bahrain
acquitted the head of the Shiite opposition of all charges on Thursday in his
trial for alleged spying for regional rival Qatar, activists said.
“Sheikh Ali Salman was found innocent,” Sheikh Maytham al-Salman of the
Bahrain Center for Human Rights told AFP.
Multiple Bahraini activists confirmed his acquittal on Twitter but he
remains behind bars serving a prison sentence for inciting hatred handed down
in 2014.
BSS/AFP/MR/ 1427 hrs