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Bahrain's top Shi'ite cleric gets one year suspended jail sentence

DUBAI, May 21 (Reuters) A court in Bahrain today convicted the spiritual leader of the country's Shi'ite Muslims of collecting funds illegally and money laundering and sentenced him to one year in jail suspended for three years, local media reported.
The court also ordered Ayatollah Isa Qassim, who is in his mid-70s, to pay 265,266 dollar in fines over the charges, which emanate from the collection of an Islamic tax called Khums, which in Shi'ite Islam is collected and spent by a senior cleric in the interests of the needy.
The case had ratcheted up tensions in the Western-allied Gulf Arab state where the US Fifth Fleet is based.
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