U.N. watchdog seeks release of two Bahrainis from death row


  • World
  • Saturday, 19 Jun 2021

DUBAI (Reuters) - A United Nations human rights watchdog has called on Western-allied Bahrain to release and compensate two activists facing death sentences, saying they are being arbitrarily detained.

In July 2020 Bahrain's highest court upheld death sentences against Mohammed Ramadhan and Husain Moosa for bombing a convoy and killing a police officer, after convictions in December 2014 that rights groups say were based on confessions extracted through torture.

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