Bahrainis slam death sentences

MANAMA, April 30: Thousands of Bahrainis gathered before a revered cleric on Saturday and denounced death sentences given to protesters over anti-government rallies crushed in March. The verdict, handed down by a military court on Thursday to four men accused of killing two policemen in the violent protests, could intensify sectarian tension in the state that hosts the US navy`s Fifth Fleet. "It`s not true that they killed them," said a man who identified himself only as Moussa, after praying at the mosque of Sheikh Issa Qassim, as a helicopter circled overhead.—Reuters