Bahrain Mirror: The Bahraini Shura council agreed in consensus to amend article (3) of decree 4/2001, regarding prohibiting and combating money laundering and the funding of terrorism. The amendment stipulated that life sentence or not less than 10-year jail term, a fine ranging between 100,000 and 500,000 BD shall be issued against anyone who gave or allocated properties or funds or revenues to a group or organization, inside Bahrain or abroad, that practices terrorist activities, or in case anyone made any action for its benefit, supported or funded it, knowing that it practices terrorist activities. The same penalty is to be issued against anyone who collected, gave or allocated properties, funds or revenues to a member of such groups inside or outside Bahrain, or in case anyone conducted any operation serving the interest of any of them or supported or funded any of them in any means, knowing that it practices terrorist activities. The same verdict is also to be issued against anyone who received directly or through any means, whether assets or money, from these members or groups in order to keep them or make use of them, serving the interest of any of them. Anyone who attempts to commit any of the aforementioned crimes shall receive the same penalty given to a perpetrator of the full crime. As for the second article, it is related to executive affairs.

Activists fear that this amendment would target dissidents whom the judicial authorities began to prosecute over so-called "terrorist" charges and stripped them of their citizenships.  

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