19 DECEMBER 2015
Bahrain warns of fake activists after UK convicts Bahraini dissident of terrorism | Middle East Eye
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Abdul Raof al-Shayeb, 51, was sentenced on Thursday to five years in prison by a court in East London.
Shayeb was convicted of terrorism charges after police found a cache of material on his computer, which included military files on bombs, missiles, and destruction, as well as images of him wearing army clothes.
Some of the material was found when Shayeb was stopped four months ago at Gatwick Airport after arriving on a flight from Baghdad.
The prosecution said he possessed information “to bring down [the Bahraini] regime by stealth and force, and by terror tactics".
Shayeb was awarded asylum in the UK on the basis that he was a human rights activist in Bahrain, where, he said, he was imprisoned on numerous occasions and tortured for taking part in anti-government protests.