of naturalising Asian Sunnis to tip the demographic balance in the country. Mohammed and Ali Mirza of Bahrain's national handball team were jailed for 15 years after being charged with taking part in anti-government protests. Their father said his sons were found guilty of being part of a group of anti-government demonstrators that burned down a farm owned by a member of the ruling family. A military court closed to the public also found the brothers guilty of possessing weapons and stealing money. The Mirza brothers, who played at the handball world championship in January, were among 150 Shiite athletes, coaches and referees detained as part of a crackdown on protesters. Many of them took part in marches organized by athletes in support of the demonstrations. 29 September A Bahraini security court sentenced twenty medical professionals to jail terms ranging from 5–15 years, claiming that they had used the Salmaniya Medical Complex as a base for antigovernment activity. The sentences were immediately condemned by human rights groups including Physicians for Human Rights. October 2011 1 October Voters cast ballots in the second round of the by-elections on 1 October. The elections passed without incident. 3 October A court in Bahrain jailed 14 people for up to 25 years each for the killing of a Pakistani man during the unrest. The prosecutor in the case stated that the court found them guilty of beating the man to death "with a terrorist aim". 4 October Liam Fox, the UK’s Secretary of State for Defence at the time, warned in his speech at the Tory Party conference that Bahrain was in danger of being the “Berlin of the Middle East”. He warned that the country represented a potential flashpoint for regional conflict and suggested that a coordinated, measured process of reform would be the most beneficial way of resolving the current troubles. 5 October On 5 October the Bahraini Attorney General ordered the 20 doctors sentenced to prison on 29 September for “inciting hatred for the regime” and hoarding weapons in the Salmaniya Medical Complex to have their cases re-tried in civilian courts. The decision was apparently a tactical retreat in face of the international community's condemnation of the sentences, which had drawn criticism from United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-Moon as well as organizations such as Physicians for Human Rights. 6 October Ahmed Jaber, a 16-year-old Bahraini teenager died in a hospital