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.
Source: Agence France Presse
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