The Fifth High Criminal Appeals Court upheld a 5-year jail term against a defendant (21 years) over putting a hoax bomb in Isa Town and acquitted him of attempting to blast another bomb and ordered the confiscation of seized items.

Bahraini High Criminal Court of Appeals ruled that the sentence of a female employee in a Gulf dairy company be commuted.

The First High Appeals Criminal Court upheld a 2-year jail term against a Bahraini, over charge of burning, along with other unknowns, water tank on the public street in Buri.

The Superior Labour Court bound a commercial company to pay 23785 BD to an Arab employee who was dismissed after remaining in service for 18 years and 2 months, under company restructuring pretext, with 3% interest starting from the date the lawsuit was raised until payment is concluded, rejecting all other requests. It also ordered the two parties to pay appropriate charges and compensation of attorney fees.

The First High Appeals Criminal Court annulled a verdict sentencing a suspect to 10 years in jail over putting, along with others, fake bomb on the public street, and acquitted the appellant of the charge brought against him, because he was arrested when the crime took place.

High Criminal Court of Appeal upheld one year prison sentence issued against a defendant convicted, along with three others, of assaulting two policemen by beating when a detainee held over an attempted murder case tried to escape from the Salmaniya Medical Complex.

The Second High Appeal Court upheld a one-month jail term against a traffic cop, with the execution of sentence, a 500 BD fine, and suspension of the policeman’s driving license for 6 months, over charge of driving his car at 208 KM/hour and exceeding the 100 speed limit on Amwaj Island street.

A cassation court rejected the appeal of two suspects sentenced to 5 years in prison over charge of “kidnapping a 16-year-old youth, taking him to a farm, attacking him, burning his back with a lighter and threatening him with a knife to confess he is an informant”.

First High Criminal Court sentenced a defendant to seven years in prison instead of 10, after convicting him among five others of placing a fake bomb in the Tubli area.

Court revoked one-month prison term issued against businessman Samih Ibrahim Rajab for insulting Minister of Industry and Commerce, acquitting him of libel and slander charges.

The Fifth Minor Criminal Court issued on Wednesday (January 17, 2018) a 3-year jail term against a Bahraini (52 years) over insulting a Bahraini judge and threatening to kill him, after the judge bound the Bahraini man to pay 402 BD for an Asian worker, who used to work for the man, and to issue him an end of service certificate.

Bahrain's Court of Cassation upheld a two-year prison sentence against prominent human rights activist Nabeel Rajab over television interviews he had with foreign media outlets.

The Sixth High Criminal Appeals Court rejected the appeal of a 17-year-old youth sentenced to 3 years in prison, over putting fake bomb on street in Wadiyan in Sitra, for appealing the verdict after the legal period ended.

Bahrain’s fourth high criminal court sentenced two defendants to two years in prison and three others to one year on charges of “assembling, burning tires and attacking police with Molotov cocktails and iron rods in the Southern Sehla area.”

The First High Criminal Appeals Court rejected, in absentia, the appeal of a suspect accused of acquiring Molotov. The suspect is sentenced to six months in jail only, due to his young age.

The Sixth High Criminal Appeals Court rejected the appeal of 4 appellants accused of putting fake bomb on the public street in A’ali. 3 of the appellants are sentenced to 5 years in jail and the fourth one is sentenced to 3 years in jail due to his young age.

The First High Criminal Appeals court sentenced 3 appellants to 3 years in jail. The defendants are convicted of holding, along with other unknowns, two youths (one of them is an Arab citizen). The suspects stripped the Arab youth of his clothes after they hit him and forced him to return home naked, claiming that he and the other youth work as informants for the Ministry of Interior.

The High Appeals Criminal Court rejected looking into challenge of defendant sentenced to 3 years in jail over assembling and burning tires near Sadad roundabout.

The former minister Samira Rajab decided to re-launch a civilian case she has already filed against Al-Ayam newspaper and its editor-in-chief.

The High Criminal Appeals Court commuted the 3-year jail sentence of two brothers who attacked two policemen to 2 years only. The two policemen had came to arrest one of the bothers who is sentenced to 5 years in jail over robbery case.