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A Bahraini who was sentenced to six months in prison for ‘disrespecting and spreading false news about a foreign country’, has received an alternative penalty after lodging an appeal against his conviction yesterday.
The 68-year-old had earlier also been fined BD200 by the Lower Criminal Court and took his case to the Higher Criminal Appeals Court.
Judges upheld the guilty verdict and ruled to exchange the prison sentence with a sentence of probation, ordering him to attend the Alternative Penalties Centre once a week.
He was also ordered not to make any further statements that insult fellow Arab countries.
“The defendant had spoken on a news channel, and his speech called for chaos and tried to wreak instability in the nation,” a prosecutor addressed the judge during the original trial.
As evidence, the prosecution presented two video clips of him making the statements and labelled them as ‘false news’ which ‘insulted a foreign country’.
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