High Criminal Court sentenced a Bahraini man to three months in prison, also fining him 500 dinars, after an aerial rifle and nine bullets were seized from the backseat of his vehicle during his arrest over charges of narcotics abuse.

The First High Appeals Criminal Court upheld a 3-year jail term verdict against defendant accused of assembling and arsoning 6 trash cans.

The Fifth High Criminal Appeals Court upheld a 5-year jail term against a defendant (21 years) over putting a hoax bomb in Isa Town and acquitted him of attempting to blast another bomb and ordered the confiscation of seized items.

Bahrain’s High Criminal Court of First Instance decided to amend the sentence of three defendants sentencing them to one-year imprisonment, while upholding the remaining verdict.

Bahraini High Criminal Court of Appeals ruled that the sentence of a female employee in a Gulf dairy company be commuted.

The First High Appeals Criminal Court upheld a 2-year jail term against a Bahraini, over charge of burning, along with other unknowns, water tank on the public street in Buri.

The Fourth High Criminal Court adjourned on Thursday (January 25, 2018) the trial of opposition leader and Al-Wefaq Secretary-General Sheikh Ali Salman and two Al-Wefaq leaders Sheikh Hassan Sultan and Ali Al-Aswad over charge of "communicating with Qatar" until February 19.

The Superior Labour Court bound a commercial company to pay 23785 BD to an Arab employee who was dismissed after remaining in service for 18 years and 2 months, under company restructuring pretext, with 3% interest starting from the date the lawsuit was raised until payment is concluded, rejecting all other requests. It also ordered the two parties to pay appropriate charges and compensation of attorney fees.

The First High Appeals Criminal Court annulled a verdict sentencing a suspect to 10 years in jail over putting, along with others, fake bomb on the public street, and acquitted the appellant of the charge brought against him, because he was arrested when the crime took place.

High Criminal Court of Appeal upheld one year prison sentence issued against a defendant convicted, along with three others, of assaulting two policemen by beating when a detainee held over an attempted murder case tried to escape from the Salmaniya Medical Complex.

The Second High Appeal Court upheld a one-month jail term against a traffic cop, with the execution of sentence, a 500 BD fine, and suspension of the policeman’s driving license for 6 months, over charge of driving his car at 208 KM/hour and exceeding the 100 speed limit on Amwaj Island street.

A cassation court rejected the appeal of two suspects sentenced to 5 years in prison over charge of “kidnapping a 16-year-old youth, taking him to a farm, attacking him, burning his back with a lighter and threatening him with a knife to confess he is an informant”.

The First High Appeals Criminal Court rejected the appeals of a suspect sentenced to 3 years in prison and stripped of his citizenship.

A Bahraini court decided to release 140 individuals arrested in Diraz raid carried out by Bahraini authorities to crush the protest outside the highest religious leader in the country, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, on May 21, 2017, that left 5 killed citizens and hundreds of detainees and injured.

Bahraini High Criminal Court of Appeal rejected the appeal of a Bahraini convicted among nine others of planting and detonating a bomb near Sitra Post.

First High Criminal Court sentenced a defendant to seven years in prison instead of 10, after convicting him among five others of placing a fake bomb in the Tubli area.

Court revoked one-month prison term issued against businessman Samih Ibrahim Rajab for insulting Minister of Industry and Commerce, acquitting him of libel and slander charges.

The Fifth Minor Criminal Court issued on Wednesday (January 17, 2018) a 3-year jail term against a Bahraini (52 years) over insulting a Bahraini judge and threatening to kill him, after the judge bound the Bahraini man to pay 402 BD for an Asian worker, who used to work for the man, and to issue him an end of service certificate.

Bahrain Attorney General Ali Fadl Al-Buainain stated that the total number of cases received in 2017 by the Public Prosecution amounted to 84,442.

The First High Criminal Court of Appeal in Bahrain did not accept the appeal of one of four defendants, accused of assembling and blocking a highway using Molotov cocktails.