Bahrain began trials for 22 more people on Tuesday over their role in protests earlier this year, part of a growing number of trials and dismissals the opposition called a provocation ahead of a planned national dialogue.
Opposition groups have said hundreds of people are on trial, in what they call a revenge move by Bahrain's discriminate rulers after they quashed anti-government protests in March led mostly by the country's majority Shi'ite population.
"This is revenge, pure and simple," said one opposition figure, who declined to be named.
The government says the numbers on trial are far fewer than the opposition estimates, and that the number of those facing charges compared to the thousands who protested proves it only pursues those it suspects of a crime
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