A Bahrain military court has convicted activists and opposition members of conspiring to overthrow the government. This could jeopardise a planned national dialogue for reconciliation. Inside Story discusses with Saeed Al Shihabi, a member of the Bahrain Freedom Movement in London sentenced in absentia to life in prison in Bahrain; Joe Stork, the deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Middle East division in Washington DC; and Doctor Saadi Mohammad Abdallah, a former member of the Bahraini parliament in Manama.