Appeals Court: 7&10-Year Jail Term to 2 Defendants Accused of Assembling and Setting Police Patrol to Fire

2017-03-14 - 5:29 p

Bahrain Mirror: Bahrain's Supreme Court of Appeal presided over by Judge Mohammad bin Ali Al Khalifa and Naji Abdullah as a secretariat upheld 10-year jail term against 2 appellants and lengthened the 7-year jail term of another to 10. It also bound them, along with the other convicted by the first-instance court, to pay 2149 BD and 600 fils for the damages caused in the ministry of interior's vehicle and ordered the confiscation of seized items.

The Public Prosecution accused the suspects of setting fire, along with other unknowns, on January 30, 2013, in a vehicle owned by the Ministry of Interior, endangering people's lives and money for a terrorist aim, taking part, along with other unknowns, in an assembly of more than 5 persons, aiming at disrupting public peace, noting that they used violence to achieve the aim they gathered for and acquiring, along with others, Molotov, aiming at using them to threaten people's lives and public and private money.

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