The Lower National Safety Court sentenced Ayat Hassan Mohammed, who was charged of taking part in illegal protests for criminal ends and inciting the hatred of the ruling system, to one year imprisonment, stated the Military Prosecutor.
Ali Yussef Hassan Yaqoob, on the other hand, was given a four-year jail sentence after the court found him guilty of attempting to murder a police officer for terrorist intentions.
In another case, the court issued verdicts against six people accused of attempting to murder civil security officers for terrorist intents, holding un-authorised guns and ammunition and protesting illegally at the GCC Roundabout in order to disrupt public security.
Raed Jassim Mohammed was sentenced to six years in prison, Qassim Hameed Khatem four years and BD 300 fine, Mohammed Hassan Ali and Hassan Mohammed Hassan Abdulkhudhr Al Asfoor to one year and Mohammed Ibrahim Jassim and Salman Ahmed Mohammed to six months.
In another context, twenty suspects stood trial over charges of gathering illegally at the Financial Harbour and using violence and force.
The court adjourned the case to June 19 so as to enable one suspect to hire a lawyer, allow another to be examined by a forensic expert and provide medical treatment for another defendant.
The court adjourned to the same date the case of Ali Salman who was tried over deliberate arson for the sake of harming people and their money.
During the hearing, the defendant denied the charges, but the Military Prosecutor asserted that investigation results, the suspect’s own confessions and the Civil Defence’s report are enough evidence to indict him.
Witnesses will be summoned during the next hearing, as requested by the defence.
In another stood trial for being accused of calling openly for the overthrow of the ruling system, disseminating rumors and protesting illegally.
The Military Prosecutor insisted that the suspect’s confessions, investigation minutes and forensic evidence are enough proof of his guilt.
The next session, set for June 19, will be devoted to final pleadings.
Mohammed Isa Ali Kadhem Al Tajer also denied being guilty of inciting the hatred of the ruling system openly, disseminating fabricated news and calling for kidnapping and harming security officers.
The Military Prosecution, however, said that the suspect’s confessions, investigation results and forensic reports are enough to indict him.
The court allowed the defence to have access to forensic evidence and adjourned the case to June 16.
The court also heard the case of Sayad Sadeq Ibrahim Hassan who was accused of attempting to murder a number of policemen, calling for the hatred of the ruling system and protesting illegally for terrorist ends.
Although the defendant denied the charges, the Military Prosecutor asserted that his confessions and investigation results are enough evidence of his guilt.
The case was postponed to June 21 so as to enable the lawyer to present defence pleading.
In the last case, which was adjouned to the same date, the defendant Matar Ibrahim Ali Matar denied calling openly for the overthrow of the ruling system, disseminating tendentious rumors and taking part in illegal gatherings.
The Military Prosecutor that the suspect’s confessions and investigation results are enough evidence of his guilt.
The final pleadings will be delivered during the next session.
Present were Salman Nasser from the Gulf European Centre for Human Rights, Abdulla Al Dirazi and Mohammed Al Sumaikh from the Bahrain Human Rights Society, Atyya Ruhani from the Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society (BHRWS), as well as some relatives of the defendants and the victims.