Next week, “a criminal court” will announce its verdict in the trial of the unidentified activists, who are charged with slandering Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa on their twitter posts.

The activists, who appeared in court on October 22, have denied the accusations.

On Thursday, another activist was sentenced to six months in prison on similar charges.

Meanwhile, the Lebanese television Al-Manar reported on Friday that Morocco has planned to send “security officials” to Bahrain “to work with special Bahraini security units to confront the challenges the country is facing, especially those related to confronting the Shia expansion.”

Bahraini Interior Ministry said in a statement issued on October 30 that it would ban all protests and gatherings, describing anti-regime demonstrations as “repeated abuse” of freedom of speech.

The Bahraini revolution began in mid-February 2011, when the people started holding massive demonstrations.

In March 2011, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates deployed troops to the Persian Gulf kingdom at Manama’s request to help Bahraini security forces’ efforts to crush the nationwide protests.

Dozens of people have been killed in the crackdown, and the security forces have arrested hundreds, including doctors and nurses accused of treating injured revolutionaries.

The protesters say they will continue holding anti-regime demonstrations until their demand for the establishment of a democratically elected government is met.

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