The trial of two Bahraini pro-democracy activists who had been released on bail earlier this week has been postponed until September 7th, writes Niamh Griffin.
Lawyers for Dr Rula al-Saffar, head of the Bahrain Nursing Society, and Jalila al-Salman, deputy head of the Bahrain Teachers’ Association, asked that the cases be struck out. But this was rejected, according to rights group Front Line.
Jim Loughran, spokesman for the Dublin-based group, said the lawyers had then asked for the pair to be tried by a civilian court instead of a military court, but this was also denied.
