Bahrain to try scores of people on charges of setting up militant group
Bahrain prosecutors said on Tuesday scores of people will stand trial next month on charges of setting up a "terrorist organization", espionage and armed attacks on police officers.
The case pertains to Bahrain's allegation last year that Iranian Revolutionary Guards helped fugitives from the Western-allied Gulf kingdom join forces to set up a Shi'ite militant group called the Zulfiqar Brigades to destabilise the state.
Bahrain's Sunni Muslim monarchy survived an uprising in 2011 mainly by majority Shi'ite Muslims demanding democratic reform. But the island state has witnessed a series of bomb attacks since that the government says has killed nearly 20 police officers, as well as continued, sporadic Shi'ite unrest.
