Bahrain Mirror: The Supreme Court of Appeals presided over by judge Mohammad bin Ali Al Khalifa and Naji Abdullah as secretariat commuted a 10-year jail term against 3 defendants to 5 years and ordered the confiscation of seized items over a case linked to burning car.

The court convicted the suspects because on March 7, 2015, they, along with other unknowns, deliberately set fire to movable assets, a car, that would put people's and money for a terrorist aim, took part in an assembly of more than 5 persons aiming at disrupting public peace, noting that they used violence to achieve the aim they gathered for and acquired Molotov, aiming at endangering people's lives and public money to danger.

Human rights organizations challenge the charges raised against political detainees, since they doubt the independence of the judiciary, whose members are assigned by royal decrees, and since it issues sentences based on confessions extracted under duress and evidence presented by secret investigations and anonymous witnesses.

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