Fees dropped towards Bahrain boy

From Mohammed Jamjoom and Salma Abdelaziz, CNN

July 5, 2012 -- Up to date 1348 GMT (2148 HKT)

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Ali Hasan was arrested on Would possibly 14 in Bahrain
• Authorities accused him of collaborating in an "unlawful collecting"
• Bahrain clamped down on an rebellion impressed by final year's Arab Spring movement

(CNN) -- A preteen arrested and accused of protesting in Bahrain is not going to get prison time, government stated Thursday.

The verdict ends the case that had elicited grievance from activists angered that government could objective an 11-year-old boy.

Police arrested Ali Hasan on Might 14 and accused him of taking part in an "unlawful collecting" with a few dozen others, consistent with the Persian Gulf kingdom's knowledge office.

On Thursday, a pass judgement on mentioned the 11-year-old was unfastened to head house along with his circle of relatives and wouldn't face detention, consistent with Luma Bashmi, spokeswoman for the president's office.

The boy might be below statement for the following yr and be visited by a social employee each six months, Bashmi said.

Hasan's arrest was a part of a central authority clampdown on protesters in Bahrain.

Rights teams have criticized Bahrain for its crackdown on anti-government protests that began in February 2011 spurred by fashionable uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.

But the protests did not acquire the traction of alternative Arab Spring uprisings after Bahraini government moved towards demonstrators in February and March closing yr -- subsidized by troops from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Protesters and Bahraini government have persisted to clash, with the competition accusing the federal government of being heavy-handed.

In November, Bahrain's Unbiased Fee of Inquiry issued a document extremely important of the crackdown.

The commission, arrange by the king, concluded that police had used over the top drive and torture closing yr. The record really useful reforms to the country's rules and higher coaching of its safety forces.

Boy, 11, detained in Bahrain crackdown

CNN's Saad Abedine contributed to this report.

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