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Bahrain upholds death sentences despite torture claims

Pro-democracy activists Mohammed Ramadhan and Husain Moosa face imminent execution.
A Bahraini lawyer, S Mohsin Al-Alawi (R) holds the defence case file for Sheikh Ali Salman, head of the Shiite opposition movement Al-Wefaq, as he leaves the court after the sentence hearing on June 16, 2015, in Manama. A Bahrain court jailed Shiite opposition leader Salman for four years after convicting him of inciting disobedience and hatred in the Sunni-ruled kingdom, a judicial source said. AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH        (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH/AFP via Getty Images)

Bahrain’s top court has upheld the death sentence for two activists convicted of killing a police officer despite an outcry from human rights organizations who say false confessions were obtained through torture. 

Mohammed Ramadhan, a security guard at Bahrain's international airport, and Husain Moosa, a hotel worker, were arrested in 2014 in connection to a bombing that killed a police officer in a village near the kingdom’s capital, Manama. The two men were each sentenced to death for terrorism. 

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