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15 Year Prison Term Handed Down to Teenager over Shooting at Police & Joining Al-Mukhtar Brigade Charges
2015-12-02
Bahrain Mirror: The Bahraini Supreme Court of Appeals upheld the 15-year jail term issued against a 17-year old boy, accused of attempting to kill a policeman in Sanabis and joining Al-Mukhtar Brigade.
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7 Accused of Joining Assembly in Sitra Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison
2015-12-01
Bahrain Mirror: The Fourth High Criminal Court in Bahrain sentenced 7 suspects to 5 years in prison over charges of joining an assembly, possessing Molotov cocktails and attacking policemen.
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5-Year Prison Term Handed Down to 27 Accused of Blocking Al-Budai Street
2015-12-01
Bahrain Mirror: The Fourth High Criminal Court sentenced 27 suspects to five years in prison, claiming that they forced an Asian truck driver to dump a load of sand in order to block the Al-Budai Street.
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Appeals Court Upholds 15-Year Prison Term Against Said Al-Hayki over Gudaibiya Bombing
2015-12-01
Bahrain Mirror: The Bahraini High Appeals Court upheld the prison term issued against Said Al-Hayki (45 years old), from Samaheej, who was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment over charges of manufacturing homemade bombs and detonating the explosives in the Gudaibiya area.
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3-Year Prison Term Handed Down to 3 Suspects over Burning Tires in Samaheej
2015-11-28
Bahrain Mirror: Bahrain's Fourth High Criminal Court presided over by judge Ali Al-Dhahrani sentenced 3 Bahrainis to 3 years in prison over burning tires and joining assembly in Samaheej.
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3-5 Year Prison Terms Handed Down to 5 Suspects over Burning Tires in Sanabes
2015-11-28
Bahrain Mirror: Bahrain's Fourth High Criminal Court, presided over by judge Ali Al-Dhahrani, issued its sentence against 5 suspects over joining assembly and burning tires in Sanabes. The court sentenced the first suspect to 5 years in prison and the remaining 4 to 3 years.
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Two Suspects Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison over Planting Hoax Bomb in Muharraq
2015-11-28
Bahrain Mirror: Bahrain's Fourth High Criminal Court sentenced two suspects to 10 years in prison over planting a hoax bomb on Muharraq old bridge and ordered the confiscation of seized items.
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Bahraini Court Sentences 6 Suspects to 5-10 Years in Prison over Assembly in Saar
2015-11-28
Bahrain Mirror: Bahrain's Fourth High Criminal Court handed down to six suspects prison terms ranging between 5 and 10 over joining assembly and assaulting police in Saar.
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9 HR Groups Urge Dropping Death Sentences Based on Coerced Confessions under Torture
2015-11-27
Bahrain Mirror: Nine human rights organizations expressed great concern over upholding death sentences against two young men “who stated that they were exposed to brutal torture to extract a confession of having committed the murder of a policeman in the Al-Dair village near the Bahrain International Airport area.”
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Bahraini Court Sentences 4 Suspects to 3 & 5 Years in Prison over Assembly in Sitra
2015-11-27
Bahrain Mirror: Bahrain's Fourth High Criminal Court convicted 4 Bahrainis, sentencing the third suspect to 5 years in prison and the 3 others to 3 years over burning tires and joining an assembly in Bahrain’s Sitra.
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Bahrain Court Sentences 11 Accused of Assembly in Al-Budai Street to 5 Years in Prison
2015-11-25
Bahrain Mirror: Bahrain's First High Criminal Cour 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.
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Bahraini Courts Issue 429 Year Prison Terms in Just One Day
2015-11-24
Bahraini Mirror: Bahrain’s main opposition group, Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, said that Bahraini courts have issued on Monday (November 23, 2015) jail terms that reach up to 429 years against 36 protestors.
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Six Protestors Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison over Charges of Setting Fire to Municipality Building in Jidhafs
2015-11-21
Bahrain Mirror: A Bahraini court sentenced 6 protestors on Thursday (November 19, 2015) to 15 years in prison. The court accused them of setting fire to a municipality building in the Bahraini village of Jidhafs. The protestors; however, denied this charge.
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Local Newspaper: Tweeter “Bou Khamees” Sentenced to One Year in Prison Over Insulting Journalist
2015-11-21
Bahrain Mirror: The Bahraini state Al-Ayam newspaper said that a Bahrain court sentenced a tweeter known as “Bou Khamees” to one full year in prison after convicting him of insulting a journalist.
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Criminal Court Rejects Military Court Verdict to Imprison Suspect for 5 Years & Declares him Not Guilty
2015-11-21
Bahrain Mirror: Bahrain's First High Criminal Court, presided over by judge Mohammad bin Ali Al Khalifa with the membership of judges Dia' Huraidi and Issam-Eldeen Mohammad Khalil and Naji Abdullah as secretariat, declared a suspect not guilty after rejecting a sentence to imprison him for 5 years, as previously issued by a National Safety Court, over charges of attacking Al-Khamis police station.
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13 Suspects Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison over Charges of Burning Tires in Hamad Town
2015-11-20
Bahrain Mirror: Bahrain's First High Criminal Court sentenced 13 suspects to 10 years in prison over setting an electrical generator used to light up national day decorations on fire as well as a number of tires in Hamad Town.
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Court of Cassation Hands down Death Sentences to Mohammad Ramadan & Hussein Mousa…Decision in Hands of King
2015-11-19
Bahrain Mirror: The Bahraini court of cassation upheld on Monday (November 16, 2015) the death penalty against the two detainees, Mohammad Ramadan and Hussein Ali Mousa, over charges of killing a policeman in Al-Dair bombing that took place in 2014 and upheld prison sentences against 10 others.
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Bahraini Appeals Court Demands Proving Lifting Immunity from Former MP Accused of Insulting MoI
2015-11-19
Bahrain Mirror: Bahrain’s court of appeals looked into the appeal brought forth by the former Member of Parliament Khalid Abdulaal (not imprisoned) who has been sentenced by the court of first instance to a one full year in prison over posting tweets on his personal Twitter account deemed insulting to the Ministry of Interior.
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Bahraini Court Sentences 12 Suspects to Life-Imprisonment & Revokes their Citizenships over 6 Bombings that Left No Fatalities
2015-11-18
Bahrain Mirror: Bahrain's First High Criminal Court sentenced twelve suspects to life imprisonment and revoked their Bahraini citizenships in a case of 14 suspects accused of establishing a “terrorist group that made several bomb blasts targeting security forces in Al-Qaria and Janabiyah.”
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Bahrain’s Court of Appeals Hands Down 10-year Jail Term to Suspect Accused of Assembly in Muharraq
2015-11-18
Bahrain Mirror: Bahrain’s Supreme Court of Appeals sentenced a suspect accused of arson and assembly in Muharraq to ten years in prison.