Bahrain Mirror: The Bahraini Fourth High Criminal Court, presided over by judge Ali Al-Dhahrani with the memberships of judges Osama Al-Shadhili and Wael Ibrahim, and Ahmad Al-Sulaiman as secretariat, handed down 5-year jail term to 3 suspects and one-year jail term to 2 suspects.

The Public Prosecution charged the suspects that on November 14, 2016, along with other unknowns, deliberately set fire to movables, endangering people's lives and money, took part along with other unknowns, in an assembly of more than five persons aiming at disrupting peace and deliberately endangered private transportation means.

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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