Bahrain cuts opposition chief's jail term
Manama : Bahrain's top court on Monday reduced the jail sentence of opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman, who has been in prison since 2014, a judicial source said.
Kingdom's cassation court reduced Salman's sentence from nine to four years, the source said on condition of anonymity.
No further details were immediately available.
The court of cassation in October had ordered a retrial of the 51-year-old cleric, who headed the now-banned opposition movement Al-Wefaq.
Salman had been arrested on charges of inciting hatred and insulting the state in December 2014.
He was found guilty in July 2015 and sentenced to four years in jail.
An appeals court later more than doubled his jail term to nine years, after reversing an earlier acquittal on charges of calling for regime change by force.
The kingdom last year ordered the dissolution of Al-Wefaq, the country's main opposition party, for "harbouring terrorism".
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