A Bahraini court has upheld a nine-year prison term imposed on the country's opposition leader, Sheikh Ali Salman, local media reported on Monday.

Salman, who leads the now closed Al-Wefaq Islamic Society, was granted a retrial in October. 

He has been in custody since his conviction last June.

An administrative court ordered Wefaq itself closed in June and Sheikh Isa Qassim was convicted of money-laundering and stripped of his citizenship. The Bahraini newspaper al-Wasat said the appeals court, in a new ruling after the court of cassation ordered a retrial, reported the verdict in Salman's appeal.

Source: Timesofoman