title: us secretly using tunisia airbase for drones spying on libya sources
text: persian gulf a protester throws a glass bottle containing paint at a police armored personnel carrier during antiregime clashes in the village of sitra south of manama on february   photo by reuters 
  a court in bahrain has imprisoned and revoked the citizenship of more than a dozen people after convicting them of terror charges as the ruling al khalifah regime continues with its heavyhanded crackdown on political dissidents in the tiny persian gulf kingdom 
  on thursday the fourth high criminal court convicted two defendants to  years in jail and three others to  years behind bars each on charges of forming a terror cell running it and recruiting new members 
  seven other people were slapped with seven years in jail each three others namely sheikh mohammad ali altal mohammad alaali and ismail abdulaziz were sentenced to life imprisonment 
  the trio were also ordered to pay a cash fine of  bahraini dinars over  
  the court later revoked the citizenship of all the  defendants 
  separately bahrains supreme criminal court sentenced two civilians to  years in prison on charge of holding an antiregime protest in the small village of jurdab earlier this year and setting scrap tires ablaze 
  thousands of antiregime protesters have held numerous demonstrations in bahrain on an almost daily basis ever since a popular uprising began in the kingdom on february   
  they are demanding that the al khalifah dynasty relinquish power and a just system representing all bahrainis be established 
  manama has spared no effort to clamp down on the dissent and rights activists on march   troops from saudi arabia and the united arab emirates were deployed to bahrain to assist the manama government in its crackdown on peaceful protesters 
  scores of people have lost their lives and hundreds of others sustained injuries or got arrested as a result of al khalifah regimes crackdown on antiregime activists loading