DUBAI: Bahrain?s jailed opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman refused to appear in court on Monday to face charges of contacts with Qatar to "overthrow the regime", the attorney general said.
Salman and two members of his banned Al-Wefaq movement, Hassan Sultan and Ali al-Aswad, are charged with "communicating with a foreign state to commit acts hostile to the state of Bahrain with the intent to harm its political, economic and national interests in order to overthrow the regime", Osama al-Awfi said.
The jailed leader of the "refused to attend the hearing", which has been deferred to Wednesday, the attorney general said in a statement.
Ali Salman has been behind bars since 2014 serving a nine-year sentence for allegedly inciting hatred, while Sultan and Aswad are on the run.
11-28-2017, 12:20 PM
Bahrain dissident chief boycotts Qatar-linked trial
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