A Bahraini court has overturned a nine-year prison term imposed on the country's most prominent opposition leader.

In a public hearing on Monday, Bahrain's court of cassation ordered a retrial of Sheikh Ali Salman, chief of the Al Wefaq Islamic Society, according to Salman's wife, Alya Radhi. 

Salman, who remains in custody, was convicted in May.

No date or reason was given for Salman's retrial, according to Radhi.

In June, Wefaq itself was shuttered by a court order and Bahrain's cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim was convicted of money-laundering and stripped of his citizenship.

Salman was arrested in December.

Salman was sentenced last June to four years in prison for inciting unrest.

Source: Timesofoman