Bahrain Mirror: Bahrain's First High Criminal Court, presided over by judge Mohammed bin Ali Al Khalifa, with the membership of judges Diaa Haraidi and Isameldin Mohammed Khalil and Naji Abdullah as secretariat, sentenced 11 suspects to 5 years in prison. The suspects are accused of staging an assembly, burning tires in Al-Budai Street and hurling stones and Molotov cocktails that led to damages in a car that stopped due to street blocking.

The court convicted the suspects saying that they, along with other anonymous, deliberately set fire in assets on May 17, 2014 for a terrorist aim and that they, along with other anonymous, participated in an assembly of more than 5 persons for a terrorist aims. It also accused them of acquiring Molotov cocktails causing damage to a vehicle parked in the area.

Since 2012, the known riot cases which are listed under the riot act have been adjusted to apply to the terrorism act, as new terrorist aims and pretexts have been attributed to them such as the attempted murder of policemen, breaching the provisions of law and putting people's lives and properties in danger, in order to harshen the sentences issued against protestors and activists.

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