The third high criminal court sentenced two Shiite clerics Sheikh Fadhel Al-Zaki and Sheikh Mohamad Jawad Al-Shehabi to 6 months in prison instead of 2 years over two assembly cases in Diraz.

The Supreme Court of Appeal upheld a first degree verdict ruling the 15-year imprisonment of 3 accused of bombing and setting fire to the Formula 1 petrol station. The court also upheld a 3-year prison sentence against a fourth defendant.

The third minor criminal court handed down 6-month jail term to eulogy citer Mahdi Sahwan over assembling outside Sheikh Isa Qassim's house in Diraz and taking part in an unlicensed gathering. The court acquitted Sahwan of charge of inciting hatred against the regime and set 100BD as a bail to stop the execution of the sentence.

The First High Criminal Court sentenced 3 defendants to 1 year in prison over acquiring arms and ammunitions, fined each of them 200 BD and ordered the confiscation of seized arms and ammunitions.

The First High Criminal Court sentenced 2 defendants to 5 years in prison over beating another man, claiming that he works as an informant.

The High Criminal Court adjourned the case of 138 defendants until February 19 to listen to the attesting witness. The defendants were accused of establishing and joining the "Zulfiqar Brigades", collaborating with Iran's Revolutionary Guards, blasting 19 bomb attacks and planting hoax bombs in several areas across Bahrain.

The second High Criminal Court of Appeals acquitted 5 policemen of torturing a convict in Jaw prison.

A Bahraini court on Monday upheld death sentences against three people convicted of killing police including an Emirati officer in a bomb attack, a judicial source said.

The Court of Cassation upheld on Monday (January 9, 2017) the death sentence against three defendants over Al-Daih blast that killed an Emirati officer and two policemen.

The Supreme Court of Appeal amended a verdict against two appellants, as they would be sentenced to 3 years in prison instead of 5, in a case accusing 11 defendants of burning tires and taking part in “illegal” assembly in the Bahraini town of Karana.

The Supreme Court of Appeal upheld a 1-year prison verdict ruled against a 22-year-old defendant accused of physically assaulting a police officer in the Dry Dock preventive detention center.

The Fifth High Criminal Court ruled a 3-year prison verdict against an underage defendant (17 years old), in a case linked to installing a fake bomb in the Bahraini town of Sitra.

Bahraini death row detainee Mohammad Ramadan, confirmed that the detainees in solitary confinement in "Jaw" Prison live in "terrible conditions", since 10 prisoners managed to escape last Sunday.

The Sixth Supreme Criminal Court of Appeal upheld the verdict ruling the 10-year imprisonment and citizenship revocation of 18-year-old defendant accused of training on making and using weapons in Iran.

The Supreme Court of Appeal upheld the 3-year imprisonment sentence against a police officer, and a prisoner, and a 200 Dinar fine to be paid by the officer, after he was accused of accepting a bribe from an inmate in Jaw Prison.

A Bahraini court upheld on Wednesday (January 4, 2017) 3-month jail term against journalist Faisal Hayyat.

Bahrain’s high appeals criminal court commuted the sentence of 6 out of 8 appellants convicted of burning 6 tires in Himla during an assembly which they took part in.

Bahrain’s second high criminal court presided over judge Wajih Al-Shaer with the memberships of judges Saber Jomaa and Omar Al-Saidi and Iman Dismal as a secretariat, upheld 7-month jail term against a defendant over insulting an officer and taking part in an unlicensed assembly.

Bahrain’s minor court set January 16, 2017 as a date to look into the case filed by ministry of information affairs against France 24 correspondent Nazeeha Saeed in which it accuses her of “practicing journalism without a license”.

Bahrain’s Fourth High Criminal Court sentenced 6 defendants to prison; one of them to 3 years in prison, three others to two years, and two others to a full year in prison, in a case charging them with hiding fugitives and aiding them to escape.