PhotoBEIRUT, Lebanon — Bahrain executed by firing squad on Sunday three Shiite men convicted of killing three police officers in a bomb attack in 2014. The executions were condemned by human rights groups, which said the men had been convicted in unfair trials based on evidence allegedly obtained through torture. “These executions were as inflammatory as they were unjust,” said Nicholas McGeehan, senior Bahrain researcher for Human Rights Watch, which opposes the death penalty. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyA Bahraini court in 2015 found 10 men guilty in the case. The Bahraini authorities have denied mistreating inmates, and a Bahraini court upheld the sentences last week.

Source: New York Times January 15, 2017 15:17 UTC