Fatima Haji, right, embraced Zahra al-Samar, the wife of Dr. Ghassan Dhaif, after hearing the verdicts announced by a Bahraini court in Manama on Thursday. Dr. Dhaif was sentenced to one year in prison on charges including taking hostages and participating in illegal gatherings.Credit...Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters CAIRO — An appeals court in Bahrain on Thursday upheld the convictions of nine doctors
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