The Criminal Department of the Lower National Safety Court heard a number of cases.
In the first case, in which fifteen people are charged with murdering a Pakistani national called Abdulla Malik Abdulla, attacking other people, taking part in illegal protests for criminal ends and disrupting public security, the defendants pleaded not guilty.
During the hearing, the court received a request from the Military Prosecution asking for more time to provide the necessary documents, and another from the defence team demanding it to allow two suspects to be examined by forensic experts and let all defendants meet their relatives.
The court, then, adjourned the case to June 2 in order to hear witnesses, as requested by the Military Prosecution.
It also agreed to provide one suspect with health care, gave the lawyers the case documents, and allowed the defendants to meet their lawyers and families.
In the second case, Ali Yussef Abdulwahab Al Taweel and Ali Mahdi Al Shamloul stood trial over allegations of killing the policeman Ahmed Al Mrissi while performing his duty of maintaining order in Sitra.
The defendants pleaded not guilty.
The court agreed to adjourn the hearing to May 31 to allow the Military Prosecution to summon witnesses and the suspects to be examined by forensic experts, as requested by their lawyers.
The court also provided the members of the defence team with copies of the bill of indictment and allowed the suspects to meet their lawyers, as well as their families.
The National Safety Court of Appeals also heard a number of cases and allowed defence teams to deliver their final pleadings and adjourned them to June 1 to issue verdicts.
Present were Salman Nasser from the Gulf European Center for Human Rights, Mohammed Al Sumaikh from the Bahrain Human Rights Society, as well as some relatives of the defendants and the victims.