Bahrain Protesters Jailed for Anniversary March

A Bahraini court on Monday jailed 10 Shiites for marching on the capital's former Pearl Square, the focal point of a month-long uprising crushed last year, a judicial source said.

They were arrested in February during protests marking the first anniversary of the month-long Shiite-led uprising against the Sunni monarchy which was crushed by force in mid-March 2011.

Several marches took off from Shiite villages on the outskirts of Manama on February 14 with protesters heading for Pearl Square, where pro-democracy demonstrators had camped out for a month last year before being forcefully driven out.

The square itself was razed after the mid-March crackdown which left 35 people dead, according to an independent commission of inquiry into the violence.