Bahrain Mirror: Bahraini High Court of Appeals upheld sentencing suspects to 5 years in prison over rioting and beating policeman in Saar.

The high criminal court sentenced the suspects from the first till the sixth to 10 years in prison over assembling and attacking policeman in Saar, and 4 others to 5 years. The court, however, acquitted some suspects from the charges attributed to them.

The court said that the first suspect trained on using weapons and that the suspects from the first till fifth, along with other unknown suspects, attacked the bodily integrity of a policeman and took part in an assembly of more than 5 people, aiming at disrupting public peace and that they used violence to achieve the aim they gathered for. They also set fire in movable properties, deliberately damaged a vehicle owned by the Ministry of Interior and acquired Molotov aiming at using them to endanger people's lives a money.

The court said that the sixth suspect agreed with another unknown suspect to train the first suspect to use weapons, adding that the fourth suspect manufactured Molotov.

Since 2012, riot cases that go under the demonstrations and riot section of the penal code were adapted to apply to the terrorism law, if there were "terrorist" purposes behind them, such as attempted murder of a police officer, violating the provisions of law and endangering the lives of people and their properties, within the regime's framework of harshening penalties against protestors and activists.

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