Bahrain’s Ministry of Justice and Islamic Affairs

BAHRAIN COURT GIVES DEATH, JAIL SENTENCES TO DOZEN DISSIDENTS

June 6, 2017:

Bahrain's Fourth High Criminal Court, presided by Ali Khalifah al-Dhahrani, delivered the death verdicts to Sayed Ahmed Fouad al-Abar and Hussein Ali Mahdi, sentenced two other defendants to life imprisonment and passed prison sentences ranging from 3 to 10 years to eight others, Arabic-language Bahrain Mirror news website reported.
The court also revoked the nationality of nine of the convicts, and ordered them to pay 28,716 dinars ($76,106) altogether over damages inflicted on two police patrol cars during an anti-regime protest in the northern village of Karbabad back in April 2016.
A Bahraini police officer lost his life and two others sustained injuries in the rally.