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Bahrain: Vast Raid Campaign, 10 Citizens Arrested within Hours
2020-01-17
The Bahraini authorities launched in the late hours of Tuesday (January 14) and Wednesday at dawn (January 15) a vast raid campaign, which resulted in the arrest of at least 10 citizens, according to "Rasd", a network specialized in security movements, raids and arrests.
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Court Upholds 3-Year Jail Term against Defendant Accused of Joining Popular Resistance Brigades
2019-11-26
The Appeals Court upheld a 3-year prison term against a defendant accused of joining the Popular Resistance Brigades (Saraya Al-Muqawama Al-Shabiya) and receiving military training in Iraq.
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Court Abolishes Citizenship Revocation Sentence, Upholds 10-Year Jail Term against 2 Defendants over Assembling in Al-Ekr
2019-11-26
The First High Criminal Court upheld a 10-year jail term against two defendants who took part, along with others, in an assembly in Al-Ekr and abolished citizenship revocation sentence against them.
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Appeals: 7-Year Jail Term handed down to Defendant Accused of Burning Police Armored Vehicle in Al-Ekr
2019-03-23
The Fifth High Appeals Criminal Court commuted a 10-year jail verdict issued against an appellant out of 7 defendants, in case of burning police armored vehicle in Al-Ekr, to 7 years only.
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Court Issues 10-Year Jail Term against 17 Suspects, Revokes them of Citizenship over Assembling in Al-Ekr
2019-02-20
The Fourth High Criminal Court sentenced on Tuesday (February 19, 2019) 17 suspects to 10 years in jail and revoked their citizenship over assembling in Al-Ekr.
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Bahraini’s Appeal of 10-Year Sentence & Nationality Revocation Rejected in Case of Training on Manufacture of Explosives in Ekr
2018-12-21
More than three years after the verdict on his appeal, a young man challenged a verdict, sentencing him to 10 years in prison and stripping him of his Bahraini nationality on charges of manufacturing, possessing, training on the use of explosives.
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Court Upholds 7-Year Jail Term against Suspect Accused of Assembling in Al-Ekr
2018-06-21
The High Appeals Court upheld a 7-year jail verdict against an appellant who participated in an assembly, attacked policemen and set fire to a generator affiliated with the police in Al-Ekr.
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Bahrain: Ongoing Harassment of Al-Ekr, Ma’ameer and Nuwaidrat Residents
2018-04-15
The Bahraini security authorities continued to impose their siege as well as set up additional concrete barriers and checkpoints in the towns of Al-Ekr, Ma’ameer and Nuwaidrat.
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Ma'ameer and Al-Ekr Siege Continues after 12 days, Checkpoint Set up at Nuwaidrat Entrance
2018-04-14
Bahraini security authorities continued to impose a siege on the predominantly Shiite towns of Ma'amir and Al-Ekr.
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Appeals Court Hands down 5-Year Jail Term to Suspect over Planting Fake Bomb in Al-Ekr
2017-10-26
The Sixth High Criminal Appeals Court upheld a verdict issued against a Bahraini electrical technician who used his experience to manufacture a fake bomb which he planted in Al-Ekr. The first-instance court had sentenced him to 5 years in prison and ordered the confiscation of seized items.
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Court Sentences Defendant to 5 Years in Prison over Putting Hoax Bomb Al-Ekr
2017-05-30
The Fourth High Criminal Court sentenced a defendants to 5 years in prison over putting hoax bomb in Al-Ekr and ordered the confiscation of seized items.
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Court Upholds Whole-Life Sentence against Defendant over Blasting Bomb in Al-Ekr
2017-04-25
The Supreme Court of Appeals upheld a first-instance court sentencing an appellant to life term sentence over a case that contains 3 suspects (2 fugitives) over blasting an explosive targeting policemen.
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Court Orders Prosecution to Investigate Reasons behind not Bringing Defendants Accused of Killing Policeman in Al-Ekr
2017-04-24
The Sixth High Court of Appeals ordered the prosecution to investigate the reasons behind not bringing 5 appellants in a case overturned by the cassation court, noting that one of the appellants is sentenced to death and the other 4 are sentenced to life term over killing policeman Mahmoud Farid Bir in Al-Ekr.
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Appeals Court Upholds Sentences Reaching Life-Imprisonment against 10 suspects Accused of Al-Ekr Blast
2016-10-25
The High Appeals Court upheld a first-instance verdict issued by the fourth high criminal court in the case of detonating a bomb and acquiring arms, sentencing 10 suspects to periods reaching 30 years.
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Three Defendants Sentenced to Life in Prison over Bomb Blast in East Ekr
2016-09-26
High Criminal Court in Bahrain sentenced three defendants to life in prison over charges of detonating bomb to “target police”.
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Iran dismisses Bahrain's Repeated and False Claims
2016-07-14
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said that Bahrain’s claims against Iran “are false, baseless and a worn-out method.”