The First High Appeals Court upheld a life prison term against 2 out of 5 suspects accused of causing blast, acquiring explosives without a license from the competent parties and damaging a bulldozer owned by the Interior Ministry, for a terrorist aim, bound them to pay together 250 BD for the damages and ordered the confiscation of seized items.

The Sixth High Criminal Appeals Court rejected the appeals of a student in Al-Jabriya Industrial School sentenced to 3 years in prison, because he appealed the verdict after the legal period ended and rejected the appeals of another appellant because he didn’t attend the session.

The Sixth High Criminal Appeals Court rejected the appeal of a 17-year-old youth sentenced to 3 years in prison, over putting fake bomb on street in Wadiyan in Sitra, for appealing the verdict after the legal period ended.

Bahrain’s fourth high criminal court sentenced two defendants to two years in prison and three others to one year on charges of “assembling, burning tires and attacking police with Molotov cocktails and iron rods in the Southern Sehla area.”

The First High Appeals Criminal Court upheld a 15-year jail term against 3 suspects out of 7, over a case of causing a blast that led to injuring 4 policemen in Al-Qarya, for not attending the appeals sessions.

The First High Appeals Criminal Court upheld a 15-year jail against 2 defendants accused of attacking an officer and policeman in Diraz, arsoning, acquiring arms, assembling, committing riots and acquiring Molotov.

The Military Appeals Court held on Wednesday (January 10, 2018) its first session to look into appeals against the verdicts sentencing 6 to death penalty and 7 others to 7-year jail term over a political case.

The First High Appeals Criminal Court adjourned the case of Al-Basta group until February 4 to add the case’s documents.

The Fourth High Criminal Court postponed looking into the case of 138 defendants accused of establishing and joining the "Zulfiqar Brigades", until January 30 for pleading.

The First High Criminal Appeals Court rejected, in absentia, the appeal of a suspect accused of acquiring Molotov. The suspect is sentenced to six months in jail only, due to his young age.

The Sixth High Criminal Appeals Court rejected the appeal of 4 appellants accused of putting fake bomb on the public street in A’ali. 3 of the appellants are sentenced to 5 years in jail and the fourth one is sentenced to 3 years in jail due to his young age.

The First High Criminal Appeals court sentenced 3 appellants to 3 years in jail. The defendants are convicted of holding, along with other unknowns, two youths (one of them is an Arab citizen). The suspects stripped the Arab youth of his clothes after they hit him and forced him to return home naked, claiming that he and the other youth work as informants for the Ministry of Interior.

The High Appeals Court upheld a 5-year jail term against defendant accused of assembly and arson charges in Al-Sahla in 2009

The First High Criminal Court issued 3-year jail term against a policeman in Jaw prison who received bribery from an inmate whose family name is “Balawi” in return for providing him with a mobile phone and a ring and ordered to fine him 200 BD. It also ordered to expel him outside the country after finishing his prison term. The court sentenced the inmate (second suspect) to 3 years in prison.

The High Appeals Criminal Court rejected looking into challenge of defendant sentenced to 3 years in jail over assembling and burning tires near Sadad roundabout.

The Fourth Criminal Court sentenced five defendants to three years in prison over charges of assembling in Sanabes, another to two and three others to one. The court also ordered the confiscation of the seized items.

The High Appeals Court upheld 3-year jail term against 5 defendants accused of assembling in Jannusan.

The Fourth High Criminal Court sentenced two defendants, in presence, to one year in jail over burning tires and pouring oil on Sheikh Isa Street in Muharraq and ordered the confiscation of seized items.

The former minister Samira Rajab decided to re-launch a civilian case she has already filed against Al-Ayam newspaper and its editor-in-chief.

The High Criminal Appeals Court commuted the 3-year jail sentence of two brothers who attacked two policemen to 2 years only. The two policemen had came to arrest one of the bothers who is sentenced to 5 years in jail over robbery case.