MANAMA: A Bahraini Court has issued a verdict against 61 accused in a terror plot to blow up the Saudi Embassy in Manama. The Court had acquitted four while handed in jail sentences to 57 members of the terror group in addition fine and revoking of citizenship.
Advocate General, President of the Terror Crimes Prosecution, Ahmed Al-Hammadi said that the first instance of the High Criminal Court issued a verdict in the case of 61 accused in connection with a terror group.
The court sentenced five defendants to life imprisonment, 22 to 15 years in jail, 29 to ten years and one to three years. Four defendants were acquitted.
The court handed a BD500 fine to all the convicts, but fined six of them BD10, 000 each. It also revoked the citizenship of all the convicts, except the third one.
The Public Prosecution charged the first defendant with setting up, in the period from 2012 to December 2013, an illegal group which adopted terrorist tactics to achieve its goals by attacking policemen, targeting vital sites and security locations, including an embassy, sparking chaos and fomenting seditions.
The Public Prosecution charged the other defendants with joining a terrorist group, receiving money, firearms, ammunitions and explosives with the intent of carrying out terror acts and subverting security.
The Public Prosecution also charged them with getting trained by foreigners, for some, in order ¬to carry out terrorist acts and levelled charges against them for helping other accused involved in crimes to leave the country illegally.
The Public Prosecution referred 33 defendants to the first instance of the High Criminal Court and issued warrants to arrest the others who are still at large.