The High Appeals Court commuted the sentence of an appellant, reducing his prison term for 3 to 2 years over arson and assembly in Sitra.

The high appeals court presided over by judge Mohammad bin Ali Al Khalifa and Naji Abdullah as secretariat refused the objection of a defendant in a case of attempting to murder a policeman.

The sixth high appeals court issued its first verdict, accepting the appeal in form yet rejecting it in substance, thus making the prison sentence 10 years, after the cassation court overturned it.

Bahrain’s Minor Criminal Court adjourned the case of Shiite cleric and Imam of Al-Kheif Mosque Sheikh Isa Al-Moamen and decided to issue its verdict in his case on November 24.

The High Criminal Court adounred the trial of al-Wefaq’s figure Sheikh Hassan Isa, who is accused of funding a “terrorist group”.

The Appeals Court upheld on Monday (November 7, 2016) the First Instance Court’s verdict that sentenced the prominent opposition leader Ibrahim Sharif to one full year in prison.

The Fifth High Criminal Court issued a life sentence against a Bahraini convicted with planting an explosive device near a Police Patrol in Karana. The court also ruled a 15-year imprisonment sentence against 4 individuals. Two other convicts under the age of 18, were sentenced to 3 years of prison

The First High Criminal Court upheld a 3-year imprisonment sentence against a teacher and a cleric, on charges of accommodating 3 wanted convicts.

The Bahraini Fourth High Criminal Court handed down 5-year jail term to 8 suspects and 2-year jail term to 5 others over arson and assembly in Buri.

A Bahraini court adjourned the case of activist Khalil Al-Halwachi until November 27 to call the attesting witnesses.

The Bahraini Fourth High Criminal Court handed down 5-year jail term to 3 suspects over planting hoax bomb in Tubli and 3-year jail term to 2 others and ordered the confiscation of seized items.

The High Appeal Court upheld a first degree ruling in favor of a 15-year imprisonment against a defendant accused of planting a bombs and setting them off near a police station.

The High Appeals Court upheld a first degree ruling in favor of a 5-year imprisonment against 8 defendants charged of installing bomb-like bodies.

Court of Cassation said it overturns the appeal verdict of Sheikh Ali Salman’s appeal, saying that the videos referred to in the findings do not show details that lead to his conviction.

The High Appeals Court ruled in favor of a verdict in cases of 45 appellants, in a case of establishing and managing a terrorist group.

The sixth high appeals will look on November 10, 2016 into the appeals of 10 suspects accused of killing the Emirati officer Tariq Mohammad Al-Shahi and two other policemen in Al-Daih, after the cassation court overturned the verdict.

A Bahraini court issued on Thursday (October 27, 2016) harsh sentences against 15 dissident accused of establishing a terrorist group; a charge the authorities usually bring against opposition activists.

The Bahraini Al-Wasat newspaper said that the sixth high appeals court presided over by judge Ibrahim Al-Zayed and Yousif Buhardan will consider on November 6, 2016 the case of the opposition leader and Al-Wefaq Secretary General Sheikh Ali Salman.

The Bahraini Fourth High Criminal Court handed down 5-year jail term to 2 suspects over assembly, arson and planting hoax bomb in Jurdab, sentenced 2 others to 3 years in prison, acquitted the fifth suspect and ordered the confiscation of seized items.

The high appeals court commuted a 10-year jail term against 3 appellants over attacking Khamis police station to 5 years only.