Bahrain's First High Criminal Court sentenced a defendant to 10 years in prison and 10 others to 5 years (because they are under 18) over torturing a youth in Diraz.

Bahrain’s First High Criminal Court sentenced a defendant to 10 years in prison and 10 others to 5 years (because they are under 18) over torturing a youth in Diraz.

Bahraini prosecutors and security officials should cease harassing journalists and should lift travel bans imposed on two reporters in the past week, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said in a statement issued Monday (May 1, 2017).

Bahrain’s Supreme Court of Appeals upheld a first-instance verdict sentencing 5 suspects to 15 years in prison and commuted the sentence of others to 10 years in prison over attempting to kill an officer and policeman in Diraz.

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.

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 Public Prosecution charged Sunday (April 23, 2017) a number of activists whom it had summoned, with illegal assembly in Diraz.

Bahrain’s Ministry of Interior said that it referred a fight that took place in East Riffa to the Public Prosecution.

Bahrain’s Third High Criminal Court renewed the detention of a policemen for 15 days over case of human trafficking in Colombian girls.

The Third Supreme Court of Appeal overruled the appeal against a 3-year imprisonment verdict ruled against a former minister for issuing two cheques without balance to a business from the Gulf. The sum of both cheques is 310 thousands Dinars.

The Public Prosecution said that it commissioned the police to search and investigate in the case of martyr Mostafa Hamdan’s killing.

A Bahraini court ruled a 4-month imprisonment against child Hussein Marhoun (16 years old) after the Public Prosecution charged him with illegal assembly.

The mother of child, Ali Naim Marhoun, said she would be present today Sunday (March 26, 2017) with her 10-year old son, to stand before the Minor Criminal Court, after the Public Prosecution raised a lawsuit against Ali and others.

Bahraini Public Prosecution summoned on Sunday the prominent dissident and former secretary-general of Wa’ad Society, Ebrahim Sharif, for interrogation today.

Was the plea entered by the Bahraini Public Prosecution really a judicial plea or a babbly speech delivered by a Takfiri extremist on a platform of hatred?!

Bahrain's public prosecution said on Sunday (March 12, 2017) that it detained the custodian of the Zahraa (as) Mosque in Hamad City for 7 days pending investigations, after he submitted fake notice.

The Second High Court of Appeal upheld a ruling to fine a 57-year-old Bahraini over insulting a journalist at Al-Watan Newspaper, Mona Al-Mtawaa’.

The Supreme Court of Appeals ignored the rejection of a dissident for not attending the hearing. The dissident is sentenced to 5 years in prison over case of assembly and riot in Juffair.

Bahrain's First High Criminal Court sentenced Hussein Ali and his wife Hamida Al-Mokhawder to one year in prison over hiding a convict who is sentenced to 10 years in prison over a political case.