Bahrain Mirror: Bahraini Appeal Court upheld a 5-year jail term verdict against 9 appellants over stabbing an Asian and assaulting a policeman.

The court of first instance convicted 27 suspects and sentenced them to 5 years in prison for forcing an Asian truck driver to unload the sand cargo in Al-Budai street after stabbing him.

The Public Prosecution accused the suspects of attacking the bodily integrity of a policeman while and because he was performing his duty. It also accused them of attacking, along with other suspects, the victim using a knife as well as taking part in an assembly of more than 5 persons, aiming at disrupting public peace and endangering people's lives and public properties. The prosecution also accused the suspects of having possession of explosives.

Since 2012, riot cases that go under the demonstrations and riot section of the penal code were adapted to apply to the terrorism law, if there were "terrorist" purposes behind them, such as attempted murder of a police officer, violating the provisions of law and endangering the lives of people and their properties, within the regime's framework of harshening penalties against protestors and activists.

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