From attending their trial and sentenced to death in absentia but the behind the embassy in washington compared it to Capital Punishment in the u. S. Adding the trials were conducted in accordance with the laws of the kingdom of bahrain which maintain International Standards at the session to execute these 2 young men came one day after the United States announced that they were going to start federal executions again which of course you know the baltics and all you know that the gulf states always feel like they need a green light to commit the violations that they commit from their allies in the us i was some see the executions as yet another crackdown on shias and the opposition by behind sunni led government since the 2011th hour of spring protests hundreds of people demanding political reform as well as human rights activists have been jailed silenced or forced to live abroad. And jazeera. Sam walton is a human rights activists who specializes in bahrain he says a trial is held in