ABU DHABI (Reuters) - A court in Bahrain sentenced a policeman to seven years in prison for the fatal shooting of a Shi'ite protester during the political unrest in the Gulf Arab kingdom in 2011, the state news agency BNA reported on Friday.
Ali Abdulhadi al-Mushaima was the first person to die in the violence that erupted in staunch U.S. ally Bahrain last February when thousands of Bahrainis, mostly from its Shi'ite majority, took to the street demanding democratic change in the Sunni-led monarchy.
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