تقرير منظمة العفو الدولية لعام  2013 حالة حقوق الإنسان في العالم
بيان صحفي  1 يوليو 2013  Bahrain must release teacher activist
The Bahraini Cassation Court’s decision to uphold the
convictions against two leaders of the Teachers Association is a
charade and yet another example of the heavy price government
critics pay in Bahrain for their views, Amnesty International
said today.  Mahdi ‘Issa Mahdi Abu Dheeb and Jalila al-Salman,
the former president and vice-president of the Bahrain Teachers’
Association were sentenced to 10 and three years imprisonment
respectively on September 2011 after they called a teachers
strike. They were charged with halting the educational process,
inciting hatred of the regime, attempting to overthrow the
ruling system by force.  “There hasn’t been a shred of evidence
of either teachers using or advocating violence. The trials were
marred by irregularities, based on spurious evidence and their
sentences should be quashed,” said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Deputy
Director for the Midd