The fourth High Criminal Court presided over by Judge Ali al-Zahrani, ruled today (Tuesday April 25, 2017) in favor of citizenship revocation verdicts against 36 defendants in a politically motivated case.

The Supreme Court of Appeals upheld a first-instance court sentencing an appellant to life term sentence over a case that contains 3 suspects (2 fugitives) over blasting an explosive targeting policemen.

Bahrain’s court sentenced two suspects to 10 years in prison and stripped them of their nationalities on charges of undergoing training on the use of weapons and explosives.

The High Administrative Court, presided over by Judge Joma’a al-Moussa, overturned a decision placing “Awal” Bank under the management of Central Bank, and canceled the decision to appoint an external director to manage it.

The First High Criminal Court upheld on Monday (April 24, 2017) a verdict issued against 9 youths from Diraz, sentencing them to 7 years in prison over burning tires on Al-Budai Street. Meanwhile, the court commuted the verdict issued against 3 youths over the same case, sentencing one to 2 years in prison and 2 others to 3 years.

The Sixth High Court of Appeals ordered the prosecution to investigate the reasons behind not bringing 5 appellants in a case overturned by the cassation court, noting that one of the appellants is sentenced to death and the other 4 are sentenced to life term over killing policeman Mahmoud Farid Bir in Al-Ekr.

The Sixth High Court of Appeals ordered the prosecution to investigate the reasons behind not bringing a number of appellants in a case of political background. The court set May 22, 2017 as date to bring the appellants who were not brought this time.

The fifth High Criminal Court ruled a 2 years imprisonment verdict against 2 and 5 years against another, for tampering with fingerprint device at the Ministry of Interior.

Bahrain’s Fifth High Criminal Court sentenced a suspect to 7 years in prison and 2 others, who escaped with him from dry dock detention center, to 2 years.

Member of Bahrain Center for Human Rights and activist Hussein Radhi said that the security authorities at Bahrain Airport told him yesterday (April 20, 2017) that he is banned from traveling based on order from the public prosecution.

The Public Prosecution summoned on Friday (April 21, 2017) 12 Bahraini activists for interrogation, on Monday and Tuesday, on top the opposition leader Ibrahim Sharif.

The Second High Criminal Court of Appeal upheld the 6-month prison verdict against 63 year old Bahraini over charges of assembly in Manama.

Bahraini security authorities released (Thursday April 20, 2017) Imam of Al-Kheif mosque Sheikh Isa Al-Moamen in the town of al-Dair, after there seemed to be a conflict in the 3-month prison verdict issued against him.

The Bahraini authorities released today Thursday (April 20, 2017) former Secretary General of the National Democratic Action Society (Wa’ad) after interrogating him.

The High Criminal Court postponed looking into the case of 138 defendants accused of establishing and joining the “Zulfiqar Brigades”.

The Fourth High Court ruled the imprisonment of 5 defendants, ages varying from 19 to 25 years old, for 3 years each.

The Supreme Appeals Court modified the sentence issued against 7 appellants and upheld a verdict issued against others over attempted murder of 3 policemen, assembly, arson as well as Molotov procession.

The Fourth High Criminal Court sentenced 5 defendants to 5 years in prison and ordered the confiscation of seized item over a case linked to planting hoax bomb in A'ali.

The Supreme Court of Appeals reduced the sentence of 3 suspects, accused of assembling and burning cars, from 10 to 5 years in jail and ordered the confiscation of seized items.

The Third High Criminal upheld 6-month jail term issued against 9 suspects because they clapped and screamed during their sentence hearing.