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Appeals Court Upholds Death Penalty against 2, Life Term Sentences against 5 over Sitra Blast Case
2018-11-02
The First High Appeals Court upheld on Monday (October 29, 2018) verdicts issued by the first-instance court sentencing each of Mohammad Ibrahim Al Touk and Mohammad Radi Abdullah to death penalty and revoking their nationalities. It also upheld life term jail against each of Salah Saeed, Ibrahim Jaafar Hasan, Ali Abdulakrim Marzouq, Laith Khalil Al Touk, Ali Ahmad Ali, revoked citizenships of 4 of them and issued 10-year jail term against Sayed Mortada Al-Sanadi and Kassim Abdullah Ali and revoked their citizenships as well.
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Court Upholds 10-Year Prison Sentence against Sheikh Hassan Isa
2018-10-30
Bahrain’s First High Court of Appeal upheld a 10-year prison term issued against a prominent Al-Wefaq Society Official and former MP Sheikh Hassan Isa.
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AFP: Bahrain Sentences Two To Death For Police Bombing
2017-03-30
A Bahraini court sentenced two people to death on Wednesday over a deadly bomb attack on a police patrol in 2015, a judicial source said.
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Court Issues Death Penalty against 2 Defendants & Whole-Life Sentence against 5 Others over Sitra Blast
2017-03-29
Bahrain's Fourth High Criminal Court issued death penalties against each of Mohammad Ibrahim Al-Touk and Mohammad Radhi Abdullah and revoked their citizenships. The court also issued whole-life sentences against Salah Saeed, Ibrahim Jaafar Hassan, Ali Abdulkarim Marzooq, Layth Khalil Al-Touk and Ali Ahmad Ali and revoked the citizenships of 4 of them. Meanwhile, Sayed Mortada Al-Sanadi and Kassim Abdullah Ali were stripped of their nationalities and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
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AFP: Bahrain Blast Wounds Two Civilians on Uprising Anniversary
2017-02-16
An explosion wounded two civilian passers-by in Bahrain, the interior ministry said on Wednesday, as demonstrators were marking the sixth anniversary of an anti-government uprising that was bloodily suppressed.
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AFP: Bomb Shrapnel Kills Woman, Wounds 3 Children in Bahrain
2016-07-01
A woman was killed and three children wounded when their car was hit by shrapnel from a bomb in a restive Shiite-majority district outside the Bahraini capital Manama, police said Friday.
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Bahrain’s Prosecution Accuses Sheikh Hassan Isa of Funding Sitra Bombing Suspects
2015-08-27
Bahrain Mirror: Bahrain’s Terror Crime Prosecution linked the arrest of former Member of Parliament and member of Al-Wefaq bloc Sheikh Hassan Isa to the suspects in Sitra bombing which left two policemen killed.
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Sitra Bomb Blast: Deaths and Injuries Yet No Photos Nor Videos
2015-08-06
Bahrain Mirror (Exclusive): While the “revenge” vehicles still patrol the streets of Sitra after the Bahraini Ministry of Interior announced that a bomb blast took place there on July 28, 2015, the ministry did not present any evidence regarding the incident.
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Sheikh Sanqoor: Sitra Blast condemned Yet Doesn't Justify Violations & Contempt Against Shiites
2015-08-03
Bahraini Sheikh Mohammed Sanqoor said that "violence only leads to more violence, worsens the crisis and makes reaching a solution harder," stressing on the people's "legitimate rights that they strive to achieve peacefully."
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Prominent Clerics in Bahrain Condemn Sitra Bombing: This Only Leads to Violence & Threatens Country’s Security
2015-07-31
Bahrain Mirror: Bahrain’s prominent clerics have issued a joint statement condemning the bomb attack that took place in Sitra on Tuesday (July 28, 2015).
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Amnesty International Concerned that Sitra Bombing Detainees Are At risk of Torture and Denied Access to Their Lawyers & Families
2015-07-31
Bahrain Mirror: Amnesty International called on Bahrain “to ensure those arrested in connection to recent Sitra bombing are not subjected to acts of torture and other ill-treatment while in custody.”
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US Embassy in Bahrain Calls for Self-Restraint and Refrainment from Violence
2015-07-30
Bahrain Mirror: The US embassy in Bahrain said that there are no justifications for deadly attacks such as the one that took place [in Sitra], and called for self-restraint and refrainment from violence.
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US Ambassador: Washington Ready to Provide All Forms of Security Support to Bahrain
2015-07-30
Bahrain Mirror: The US Ambassador to Bahrain, William Roebuck, expressed his country’s readiness to provide all forms of security support and condemned the bomb blast that took place in Bahrain’s Sitra.
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UK Minister Condemns Sitra Explosion: We Are Working to Enhance Security Cooperation With Bahrain
2015-07-30
Bahrain Mirror: The British Minister at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Tobias Ellwood strongly condemned on Tuesday (July 28, 2015) the explosion that took place in Bahrain’s Sitra.
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Tehran Denounces “Sitra Bomb Blast” and Calls on “Region” to Fight Scourges of Extremism
2015-07-30
Bahrain Mirror: Iran condemned on Tuesday (July 28, 2015) the bomb blast which, according to the Bahraini Ministry of Interior, hit the island of Sitra, southeast of the capital Manama.
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Bahrain Public Prosecution Charges 30 Suspects with Detonation of Home-Made Bomb in Al-Diraz
2015-07-30
Advocate General and Acting Attorney General to the Terror Crime Prosecution, Hamad Al-Buainain, announced that the investigations into the bomb blast that took place in the Al-Diraz area have been concluded.
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Al-Wefaq on Sitra Bomb Blast: Violence and Violent Reactions Are Unacceptable
2015-07-30
Bahrain Mirror: Al-Wefaq stressed once again that any act of violence is “completely unacceptable” and denounced “the incident that took place in Sitra on Tuesday (July 28, 2015) as announced by the Ministry of Interior.”