{"id":21093,"date":"2018-11-04T20:23:44","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T20:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21093"},"modified":"2018-11-04T20:23:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T20:23:44","slug":"bahrain-opposition-chief-jailed-for-life-over-qatar-spy-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21093","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain opposition chief jailed for life over Qatar spy case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1398986\/middle-east\" readability=\"52\">\n<p>DUBAI: Bahrain\u2019s appeals court sentenced the head of the country\u2019s Shiite opposition movement to jail for life Sunday over charges of spying for rival Gulf state Qatar, a judicial source said.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSheikh Ali Salman, who headed the now-banned Al-Wefaq movement, and two of his aides had been acquitted by the high criminal court in June, a verdict the public prosecution appealed, AFP reported.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe latest ruling on Sunday can also be appealed.<br \/>\nThe public prosecutor said in a statement that the three had been unanimously sentenced by the appeals court for \u201cacts of hostility\u201d against Bahrain and &#8220;communicating with Qatari officials&#8230; to overthrow constitutional order&#8221;.<br \/>\nSalman is currently serving a four-year sentence in a separate case \u2013 \u201cinciting hatred\u201d in the kingdom, which has seen mainly Shiite protests against the Sunni monarchy since 2011, according to AFP.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIn November, Salman and two other members of Al-Wefaq were charged with working for Qatari intelligence with the aim of overthrowing the Bahraini government.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: Bahrain\u2019s appeals court sentenced the head of the country\u2019s Shiite opposition movement to jail for life Sunday over charges of spying for rival Gulf state Qatar, a judicial source said. Sheikh Ali Salman, who headed the now-banned Al-Wefaq movement, and two of his aides had been acquitted by the high criminal court in June,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}