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Court Upholds 3&10-Year Jail Term against 5 Suspects Accused of Detonating Gas Cylinder Near National Bank of Bahrain
2019-03-12
The High Appeals Criminal Court upheld 3 and 10-year jail term against 5 suspects accused, along with a sixth suspect, of blasting a gas cylinder in front of National Bank of Bahrain in Sitra in January 2017. All the suspects, expect the fifth, appealed the verdict.
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Court Rejects Appeals of Suspect Sentenced to 5 Years in Jail in Politically Motivated Case
2019-03-12
The High Criminal Appeals Court rejected the appeal of a Bahrain sentenced to 5 years in jail in a political case.
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Court Upholds 7-Year Jail Term against Defendant Accused of Beating Youth Claiming He is Informant
2019-03-08
The High Appeals Criminal Court upheld 7-year jail term against Bahraini convicted, along with 3 others, of kidnapping a youth, beating him in Dar Kulaib farm and forcing him to confess in front of a video camera that he is an informant and posting the video on website of "Bahraini uprising intelligence".
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Court Upholds 7-Year Jail Term against Defendant, Revokes his Citizenship over Assembling in Karzakan
2019-03-06
The First High Criminal Appeals Court upheld the 7-year-jail verdict issued against a defendant accused of assembling and hurling Molotov cocktails and revoked his citizenship.
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Appeal Court: 3 Acquittals of "Money Laundering" Charges, Each Fined 500 Dinars for Collecting Funds without License
2019-03-06
The Bahraini High Court of Appeal upheld the acquittal of three defendants accused of laundering money obtained from crimes, while each defendant was fined 500 dinars for collecting funds without a license and sending them to a private institution in Tanzania, which was arranged by the third defendant residing in Iran.
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Court Upholds 3-Year Jail Term against Suspect Accused of Assembling in Al-Nuaim
2019-03-05
The Fifth High Criminal Appeals Court objected the appeals of a suspect out of 3 accused of assembling and upheld the 3-year jail term against him.
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Life Sentences and 15-Year Prison Terms Handed down to Defendants for �Forming Revolution Intelligence Agency�
2019-03-04
The First High Criminal Appeal Court in Bahrain rejected the appeal of eight convicts in a case known as the �Secret Intelligence Agency of the Revolution in Bahrain (SIA)�.
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Appeals Court Upholds 5-Year Jail Term against Suspect Accused of Burning Tires in Sheikh Jaber Al-Sabah Street
2019-03-02
The First High Criminal Appeals Court rejected the appeals of a youth out of two accused of assembling and burning tires and upheld his 5-year jail verdict. Meanwhile, the second suspect appealed his ruling earlier which was also upheld.
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Appeal Court Upholds Death Penalty Handed down to Asian Nationals in Another Murder Case
2019-03-01
The High Court of Appeal upheld the death sentence issued against two Asian nationals convicted of killing another Bengali citizen and disposing of his body by placing it in a large bag and dumping it next to a garbage dump in Manama in April 2013, the case referred for a second time from the Court of Cassation.
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Appeal Court Upholds Death Sentence against Youth Hussein Abdullah Marhoun
2019-02-26
The Bahraini Court of Appeal upheld the death sentence of Hussein Abdullah Marhoun, in the case of the death of a policeman, in a bombing that authorities said took place in Diraz in June 2017.
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Final Verdict on Execution of Mohammad Al Tawq & Mohammad Radhi in Sitra Bombing
2019-02-25
Bahrain's Court of Cassation issued a final verdict on the execution of Mohammad Ibrahim Al Tawq and Mohammad Radhi Abdullah in the Sitra bombing case, which the authorities said left two policemen killed in 2015.
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Final Verdict Sentencing Al-Wefaq Former MP Sheikh Hasan Isa to 10 Years in Jail
2019-02-25
The Cassation Court issued on Monday (February 25, 2019) a final verdict sentencing the former MP and prominent Al-Wefaq leader, Sheikh Hasan Sultan, to 10 years in jail over charge of funding a terrorist group claimed to be involved in Sitra blast that killed two policemen in 2015.
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Court Upholds 5-Year Jail Term against 4 Detainees Accused of Burning 2 Cars during Ras Rumman Protest in 2014
2019-02-25
The High Appeals Court upheld 5-year jail term against 4 political prisoners accused of staging protest in Ras Rumman and burning two cars using Molotov.
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Appeals: Case of Two Death Convicts in Drug Case Adjourned until March 25 for Ruling
2019-02-25
The High Appeals Court set March 25 as a date to issue its ruling in the appeals of two death convicts and 5 others accused of forming a cell to bring in narcotics in car tires after smuggling them through King Fahd Causeway.
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Northern Governorate Police Arrest Asian National for Forging IDs & Driver�s Licenses
2019-02-23
The Director General of the Northern Governorate Police said that the governorate police officers arrested an Asian national, suspected of forging identity cards and driver�s licenses, in addition to forging and selling vehicle documents.
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Court Upholds 7-Year Jail Term against Suspect Accused of Attacking Police Patrol in Diraz
2019-02-21
The First High Criminal Appeals Court issued 7-year jail term against one appellant out of 26 suspects accused of attacking police patrol in Diraz and ordered the confiscation of seized items.
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Court Upholds 3&5-Year Jail Term against 10 Defendants Accused of Kidnapping Youth, Claiming He is Informant
2019-02-21
The High Appeals Court upheld the rulings issued against 10 appellants convicted over charge of kidnapping a youth, claiming he is an informant.
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Court Issues 10-Year Jail Term against 17 Suspects, Revokes them of Citizenship over Assembling in Al-Ekr
2019-02-20
The Fourth High Criminal Court sentenced on Tuesday (February 19, 2019) 17 suspects to 10 years in jail and revoked their citizenship over assembling in Al-Ekr.
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Court Issues Life Sentences to 2 Defendants, 10-Year Jail Term to 6 Others, Revokes Citizenship of 3 over Political Case
2019-02-20
The Fourth High Criminal Court issued life sentences to 6 defendants, 10-year jail term to 6 others, 5-year jail term to a defendant and 3-year jail term to 3 others and revoked the citizenship of 3.
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Life Sentence Handed down to 3 Bahrainis, Citizenship Stripped from 5 Others in Politically-Motivated Case
2019-02-20
The Fourth High Criminal Court sentenced 3 defendants to life in jail and 300 BD fine, it also sentenced two others to 5 years and a suspect to 7 years in jail. The court ordered the revocation of all the suspects' citizenships.