Appeals Court Rejects Applying “Alternative Punishment Law”, Upholds 3-Year Jail Term against 3 suspects and 2-Year Jail Term against 2 Others over Planting Fake Bomb

The Fourth Bahraini Criminal Court rejected the objection of a Bahraini youth sentenced to three years in prison.

Bahrain’s First High Criminal Court convicted four detainees aged between 19 and 21 of beating and insulting a policeman and a lieutenant at a dry dock prison.

The First High Appeals Criminal Court upheld a one-year jail verdict against a detainee in Jaw Prison for attacking and insulting one of the policemen there.

The Fourth High Criminal Court sentenced 6 suspects to life in prison over planting a bomb near Diraz park, detonating it and injuring two policemen.

A Bahraini court on Thursday sentenced six people to life in prison for inciting riots to lure police towards a bomb, a judicial source said.

The Labor Court bound a foreign company working in transformative industries to pay more than 29 thousand BD for a sales supervisor who spent 14 years in the company and was arbitrary dismissed in June 2015. The employee used to get a 1000 BD monthly salary since 2004.

The High Criminal Appeals Court upheld life term sentences and citizenship revocation against seven appellants convicted of making explosives and weapons in a Nuwaidrat warehouse and establishing terrorist group. The court also upheld fining the first 3 suspects 300.000 BD.

The High Appeals Court upheld a 5-year jail term against suspects convicted of taking part in blasting a gas cylinder in front an exchange shop in Saar and causing damages to it and to the nearby shops.

The First High Criminal Appeals Court upheld a 7-years jail verdict against 2 appellants, who traveled to Iran and received training in camps affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, and a ruling revoking them of their citizenships.

The First High Appeals Criminal Court upheld prison terms against 5 out of 7 defendants. It upheld 3-year jail term against 3 defenats and 2-year jail term against 2 others after being convicted of assembling and burning a number of tires in Bilad Al-Qadeem, aiming at causing chaos.

The Fourth High Criminal Court handed down a 7-year jail term to a Bahraini, convicted of training to use arms and explosives in Iran and Iraq, aiming at committing crimes and joining 14th February Coalition, and revoked his citizenship. Meanwhile, it acquitted another suspect of the charges brought against him.

The Fourth High Criminal Court sentenced 2 suspects to 3 years in jail over assembling in A’ali and acquiring Molotov.

The fourth High Criminal Court, presided over by judge Ali Al-Dhahrani, revoked the citizenships of 9 citizens and sentenced them to prison terms ranging between 3 and 15 years, over a case of attacking policemen in Al-Janabiyah.

The Al-Ayam local newspaper said that the Fourth High Criminal Court convicted 115 suspects in a case known as "Zulfiqar Brigades".

A Bahraini court sentenced a Bahraini tweeter, 25 years, to 2 years in jail with the execution of sentence. The court said that the defendant incited hatred against the regime through his Twitter account named SIi717. A local newspaper said that the defendant published more than 200 tweets considered abusive to the regime and king within 5 years.

First Bahraini High Criminal Court Sentenced a 24-year-old Serb and a 30-year-old Bosnian national to five years in prison for robbing a currency exchange office in the Umm Al-Hassam area by threatening employees with an electric taser.

The security authorities released today Sheikh Isa Al-Moemen after serving his 3-month jail term.

The High Appeals Criminal Court commuted the 10-year jail verdict issued against a suspect along with 5 others to 5 years in jail.

The First High Criminal Court upheld a life sentence issued against one of two appellants sentenced to life in jail after accusing them of detonating a locally-made bomb in Damistan near a charity association and attempting to murder two policemen, while trying to erase some slogans and remove abusive photos from the association’s wall.