The court sentenced the first two defendants to ten years in jail each, while the third received a seven-year prison sentence after the trio was found guilty of “joining a terrorist group and traveling to Iraq in 2017 to receive military training”, according to presstv.
The three convicts were later stripped of their Bahraini citizenship.
Thousands of anti-regime protesters have held demonstrations in Bahrain on an almost daily basis ever since a popular uprising began in the country in mid-February 2011. They are demanding that the Al Khalifah regime relinquish power and allow a just system representing all Bahrainis to be established.
Manama has gone to great lengths to clamp down on any sign of dissent. Scores of people have lost their lives and hundreds of others sustained injuries or got arrested as a result of the Al Khalifah regime’s crackdown.
In March 2017, Bahrain’s parliament approved the trial of civilians at military tribunals in a measure blasted by human rights campaigners as being tantamount to imposition of an undeclared martial law countrywide.