Bahrain convicts 51 people in mass trial amid crackdown

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Bahrain says it has convicted 51 people, more than half of them abroad, on charges of belonging to a militant group. The announcement on Tuesday marks in the latest mass trial conducted in this island kingdom amid a yearslong crackdown on dissent. Bahrain described those convicted as belonging to an unnamed militant group that received orders from Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard. Bahrain, a tiny island off the coast of Saudi Arabia, has seen