The Sixth High Criminal Appeals Court rejected an appeals of 6 convicts out of 7 accused of setting fire and pouring oil in Al-Sahla street last Adha Eid. The court upheld a 3-year jail term verdict against each of the suspects whose ages range between 17 and 25 years.

The Sixth High Criminal Appeals Court upheld a verdict issued against a Bahraini electrical technician who used his experience to manufacture a fake bomb which he planted in Al-Ekr. The first-instance court had sentenced him to 5 years in prison and ordered the confiscation of seized items.

The First Appeals Criminal Court rejected the appeal of a 33-year-old man convicted of attacking two policemen, damaging their military suit, after catching him drunk and quarreling with others. The court upheld imprisoning him to one year in prison with the execution of the sentence after the first-instance court dealt with him in pity.

The Fourth High Criminal Court handed down 5-year jail term to a 20-year-old youth accused of planting fake bomb in Jid Ali and ordered the confiscation of seized items.

The Fourth High Criminal Court sentenced 3 suspects to 3 years in prison over planting fake bomb on public street in Jeblat Habshi and ordered the confiscation of seized items.

The High Criminal Court of Appeal issued the first sentence of its kind substituting the penalty of a 70-year-old Bahraini man sentenced to two months' imprisonment with house arrest, after convicting him of taking by deception a sum of 2,200 dinars from two persons.

The Court of Cassation overturned a one-year sentence of a 50-year-old Bahraini woman for insulting the judiciary and referred the case back to the court that issued the ruling.

The Fourth High Criminal Court sentenced a suspect who took part in burning water tank in Buri, along with about 40 individuals, to 2 years in prison over the accusations brought against him.

The fourth high criminal court in Bahrain sentenced two defendants to life imprisonment for the murder of a young man (Sayed Ahmad Mousa) in Diraz and dumping his body in an empty area, and handed down to two others 5 and 3-year prison terms.

The High Court of Appeals upheld a one-year prison sentence handed down to a couple for harboring at their home their wanted nephew, who is sentenced to 10 years in prison for burning the Al-Khamees police station.

The High Court of Appeal in Bahrain handed down a 15-year prison term instead of life imprisonment to four defendants in the case of communicating with Iran, establishing and joining a terrorist group, training on the use of weapons and explosives, and importing weapons, ammunition and explosives from Iran.

The seventh minor criminal court (specialized in traffic cases) in Bahrain sentenced a 22-year-old Gulf national to one month in prison, also fining him 500 Bahraini dinars for making a rude gesture at the speed camera, which caught him exceeding the speed limit.

The First High Criminal Appeals Court sentenced 2 defendants to 10 years in prison instead of 15 and handed down 2-year jail term instead of 4 to 4 defendants accused of taking part in planting a bomb in security patrol location in Karana and attempting to murder 3 policemen. The court upheld binding the defendants to pay 1178.550 BD for the damages caused to the security patrol and ordered the confiscation of seized items.

The fourth high criminal court in Bahrain sentenced a 16-year-old boy to one year in prison on charges of staring fire and setting up a replica of explosives on a road in Al-Sahla.

A Bahraini minor criminal court sentenced Bahraini businessman Samih Rajab to one month in prison, over charges of insulting and slandering the Minister of Industry and Commerce Zayed Al-Zayani.

The First High Criminal Court decided to summon the attesting witness in a case that comprises 5 suspects accused of hiding wanted and convicts over political cases, and adjourned the case until November 8, to listen to the witness testimonies.

The Second Criminal Appeals Court adjourned until November 8th 11 appeals filed by owner of “Mnarefzhom" account and editor of videos circulated on the account. The two defendants had appealed against the verdicts issued against them. The defendants were accused of insulting the victims and misusing communication means.

The Fifth High Appeals Court adjourned the appeals of suspects, accused of setting police patrol to fire by Molotov, killing a policeman in Karbabad and attempting to kill others, to October 23 for pleading and getting the rest appellants. 2 of the suspects in this case are sentenced to death penalty and 11 other are sentenced to life in prison.

The First High Criminal Court ordered the Public Prosecution to summon the 19th attesting witness in the case of 23 suspects who 17 of them could flee Dry Dock Prison on June 3, 2016, after attacking and beating a number of policemen and stealing a bus drives by an Asian man. The rest of the suspects whose ages range between 19 and 27 years helped the fugitives to flee and hid them.

The high criminal court acquitted a 20-year-old man of alleged involvement in the bombing of the Sar area, while the other two defendants, aged 15, were sentenced to six months in prison each for possessing Molotov cocktails.