Bahrain's Cassation court upheld on Monday (May 21, 2018) death sentences against Ahmad Al-Abbar and Hussein Ali Mahdi over case of killing Asian policeman Mohammad Nafid in Karbabad.

UN human rights experts have called for the retrial of four men sentenced to death by a Bahraini military court in a collective trial that breached fair trial and due process guarantees and confessions obtained under torture.

The Ministry of Interior addressed personal letters to senior Shiite cleric in Bahrain (Sayed Abdullah Al-Ghuraifi, Sheikh Abdulhussein Al-Sitri, Sheikh Mohammed Saleh Al-Rubai and Sheikh Mohammed Sanqour), who undersigned a statement dated April 26, 2018, regarding the death penalty which was commuted to life in jail for convicts indicted in the attempted murder of Bahrain Defence Force (BDF) Commander-in-Chief. The ministr

King of Bahrain sent a letter to the Military Commander-in-Chief in which he said that the latter's approach to forgiveness and tolerance led to his decision to commute the death penalty.

Bahrain's top Shiite clerics described in a statement the decision to “overrule the death sentences” of those accused of plotting to assassinate the army chief as “a welcomed and praised step.”

Bahrain's king has commuted four death sentences handed down by a military tribunal in the island kingdom, which included three civilians and one soldier.

King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa ratified today (April 26, 2018) commuting the death sentences, upheld by the military court yesterday, to life sentences, in the case known as attempting to assassinate the marshal.

The high appeals court in Bahrain upheld on Wednesday (March 7, 2018) the verdict issued by the cassation court regarding the appeals of 6 defendants accused of killing the Pakistani police officer Mahmoud Fareed, and upheld death sentence against Salman Isa and life sentence against 5 others as well as the ruling revoking the citizenships of all convicts.

The High Appeals Court upheld death sentences against Hussein Mahdi and Sayed Ahmad Al-Abbar, who are accused of killing policeman Mohammad Nafid through Karbabad blast.

The Court of Cassation today upheld the appealed sentences in the case of deliberate murder and foreign intelligence connections, the Chief of Terror Crime Prosecution, Advocate General Ahmed Al-Hammadi, said.

The British Reprieve Organization urged to sign an online petition to call on the UK government to end its assistance to Bahrain's death penalty system and take steps to prevent Mohammad Ramadan’s execution.

Amnesty International called for quashing the death sentence imposed by Bahraini Court of Cassation against Maher Al-Khabbaz, highlighting that it followed a trial which relied on “confessions” extracted under torture.

A Bahraini court today issued harsh sentences against 58 defendants in the case involving the Jaw Prison escape, harboring of fugitives and killing of police officer Al-Hammadi.

Bahrain Court of Cassation issued on Monday (January 29, 2018) its ruling regarding the challenge filed by the defendants' attorney in Al-Sahla blast case, including death row convict Maher Al- Khabbaz.

The British human rights Reprieve organization urged, in a statement it published on its website, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson to intervene to halt repression in Bahrain, including the planned execution of political protesters.

Amnesty International issued on (January 12, 2018) a statement in which it expressed grave concern about the death sentences passed against six defendants tried by the Military Court in Bahrain.

Social media outlets said that the security authorities arrested death row convict Hussein Abdullah Al-Rashid (29 years), from Damistan, in mysterious conditions yesterday night (January 2, 2018).

Bahrain Opposition Bloc in London expressed its full rejection to all the political verdicts and trials held in Bahrain since over 7 years against prisoners of conscience in Bahrain, stressing on the necessity to stop these military courts that issued collective death sentences that are considered the first of their kind in Bahrain’s history.

A Bahrain court on Wednesday sentenced 10 Shiites to life in jail for forming "terror" groups and manufacturing explosives and bombs, a judicial source said.

Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society dubbed the death penalty verdicts issued against 6 citizens as “fool”, stressing that the cases are absurd and baseless.