A Bahrain court sentenced 17 opposition activists to 15 years in prison on Sunday after convicting them of “the attempted murder of four policemen in a bomb attack in April last year,” a judicial source told AFP.

A Bahrain court sentenced 17 opposition activists to 15 years in prison on Sunday after convicting them of “the attempted murder of four policemen in a bomb attack in April last year,” a judicial source told AFP.

The defendants were found guilty of detonating a roadside bomb in the village of Aker that wounded four members of a passing police patrol, the source said.