Dozens of Bahrainis face court, seven convicted

Thirty three Bahrainis faced military court hearings on Sunday, on charges of illegal activities during weeks of protests that rocked the Gulf island kingdom earlier this year, the state news agency said.
Opposition groups estimate about 400 people, most of them from the country's majority Shia population, are on trial, but the government says the numbers are far less.
Bahrain's Sunni rulers, who host the US Navy's Fifth Fleet in Manama, called in troops from fellow Sunni-led Gulf states to help crush mostly Shia-led democracy protests in March. The government said the protests had a sectarian agenda and help from Shia power Iran, which the opposition denies.