Bahrain court jails woman activist for three months

MANAMA: Bahraini rights activist Zainab Al-Khawaja has been sentenced to three months in jail for insulting a public employee after an appeal court overturned her earlier acquittal.
Zainab is the daughter of prominent human rights activist Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja who was a leading figure in the 2011 uprising and who is now serving a life sentence.
“The Court of Appeal has today overturned an initial verdict acquitting Zainab Al-Khawaja and sentenced her to three months in jail,” BNA said, citing Amina Isa, a chief prosecutor. Bahrain’s public prosecutor had charged Zainab with “insulting a public employee while on duty,” BNA said.
The appeals court has previously sentenced Zainab to one one-month and one two-month jail term in two other cases for entering a prohibited military zone and damaging state-owned property, the agency said.