The First High Appeals Criminal Court upheld 5-year jail term against 2 appellants over charge of kidnapping a youth and beating him, claiming that he works as an informant.

A Bahraini court adjourned on Monday (May 21, 2018) the case of political detainee Najah Al-Sheikh for sentencing on June 25 while remaining in custody.

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 accused in a money-laundering case have been referred to the criminal court after the Public Prosecution completed its investigation, Abdullah Al-Thawadi, head of the prosecution in the capital, said. The trial is set for June 12.

The Second Minor Criminal Court acquitted unionist Ali Al-Binali of charges of fraud, by deceiving citizens and selling them gold bullion fringes for costs that are not commensurate with their market value, due to lack of evidence.

A Bahrain court Tuesday sentenced 115 Bahrainis to jail terms ranging from three years to life and stripped them of their nationality for forming an Iran-linked "terrorist" group, the public prosecutor said.

A Bahrain court on Tuesday revoked the citizenship of 115 people at a mass terrorism trial, the most to lose their nationality at any one time, amid a years-long crackdown on all dissent in the island kingdom.

A court in Bahrain revoked the citizenship of 115 people and gave 53 of them life sentences on terrorism charges, the public prosecutor said on Tuesday, in one of the most severe rulings yet in the Gulf island kingdom.

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

Two Bahrain residents (whose nationality has not been identified) have been questioned by India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

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

The Special Investigation Unit (SIU) agreed to reconsider the death verdict issued against two death row convicts Mohammad Ramadan and Hussein Mousa.

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.

A Bahraini court convicted a businessman who heads a family he owns with numbers of his family over charges related to dishonesty and seizing more than 765000 BD from the company’s properties.

Bahraini High Criminal Court of Appeals upheld a 15-year prison sentence for five defendants accused of attempting to kill policemen in the Damastan area.

The Fourth Bahraini High Criminal Court sentenced in absentia a defendant to five years in prison for placing a mock-up of explosives in a public place.

Fourth Bahraini High Criminal Court upheld two-year prison sentences issued against for defendants accused of assembling and hurling Molotov cocktails at two police vehicles in Sitra.

Fifth Bahraini Criminal Supreme Court of Appeals upheld a ruling, sentencing three defendants to three years in prison for hurling a petrol pail at a police patrol vehicle from a rooftop.