From Foreign Policy: "A military tribunal in Bahrain has sentenced eight prominent opposition activists to life imprisonment and 13 others to lesser prison sentences, on charges of seeking to topple the monarchy and collaborating with a foreign terrorist group, among a host of other charges."
Zainab Al Khawaja (@angryarabiya) is the daughter of one of the activists sentenced today. Her Twitter feed today was filled with a chilling account of the sentencing, and what she went through to witness it. Here is a collection of her tweets today.
"I do feel that one reason I wasn't beaten today is Twitter," she wrote. "It makes them feel exposed, they like committing their crimes in the dark."
