Bahrain Mirror: Bahrain's Supreme Court of Appeal presided over by Judge Mohammad bin Ali Al Khalifa and Naji Abdullah as a secretariat neglected the objection of 4 appellants because they did not appear before the court. The court upheld 10-year jail term against 3 defendants and 13-year jail term against another one over burning patrol, assembling and acquiring ammunitions.

The high criminal court had convicted 13 suspects over assembling, hurling Molotov against security patrol and damaging it.

The court sentenced the suspects from the first till the fourth and from the sixth till the thirteenth to 10 years in prison and sentenced the seventh suspect to 3 years in prison and fined him 500 BD over the charge of acquiring ammunitions. Moreover, the court handed down 3-year jail term to a suspect because he was under 18 and ordered the confiscation of seized items.

The court convicted the suspects because on August 10, 2014 and September 4, 2014, they, along with other unknowns, deliberately set fire to a car owned by the ministry of interior aiming at endangering people's lives and money and for a terrorist aim, took part, along with other unknowns, in an assembly of more than 5 persons aiming at disrupting public peace and endangering people's lives and money and acquired Molotov.

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