The High Cassation Court upheld on (May 6, 2019) life term sentences against 8 suspects, 15-year jail term against 9, and 10-year jail term against 2 and fined them 100.000 BD. It also revoked the citizenships of 15 of the suspects.

A Bahraini Appeals Court upheld sentences against 10 out of 19 defendants in “Al-Basta Group” case.

Appeal Court Rejects Appeals of 10 Defendants in “Al-Basta Group” Case, Upholds Sentences against them

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

Arbitrary retaliatory sentences were issued on October 30, 2017, against 18 Bahrainis accused in a case known as “Al-Basta Group”. The court issued life sentences against 8 defendants, 15-year jail terms against 7 others and revoked the citizenships of 14.

A Bahraini court issued on Monday (October 30, 2017) life prison sentence against 7 defendants and revoked their citizenships over joining “Al-Basta Group”.

A Bahraini court decided to adjourn the case of an organization known as "Al-Basta Group", comprising 18 suspects, to May 25, 2017, in order to assign a lawyer to a suspect and to plead for the attendees.

The fourth High Criminal Court fined the interrogator (prosecution witness) in Al-Basta group 50 BD for failing to attend more than one trial session.

Bahrain Mirror: Attorney-general Ahmad Al-Hammadi stated that Bahrain’s Terrorist Crime Prosecution commenced interrogation procedures questioning 10 of the “Al-Basta Group” suspects, 8 out of whom confessed to committing the crimes raised against them.

Bahrain Mirror: The Bahraini Al-Wafaa Islamic Party denied on Friday (January 8, 2016) charges of forming a military arm (Al-Basta Group) raised by the Bahraini Ministry of Interior against it. It further stressed that the detainees are prisoners of conscience.