10 terror suspects sentenced to life in jail

Advocate General Ahmed Al Hammadi the Chief of Terror Crime Prosecution said the High Criminal Court today sentenced 10 defendants to life in jail and revoked their Bahraini citizenship.
The ninth defendant was additionally sentenced to one month in jail and a fine of BD 100 for illegally possessing a sword. 
All ten terrorists were convicted on charges of organising and managing a terrorist group contrary to the provisions of the law, possessing explosives and tools used in making firearms for terrorist purposes and training in the use of weapons and explosives for the purpose of committing terrorist crimes in Bahrain.
They were trained on how to use weapons and explosives in committing terrorist crimes in the Kingdom.
Earlier, the Public Prosecution had received a report from the Investigation & Forensic Science General Directorate (CID) regarding the arrest of a terrorist group. The investigations indicated that an individual (before he traveled to Iraq where he also died) recruited Bahraini elements and sent them to Iraq and Iran to receive military training on how to use weapons and explosives. The said individual had formed a terrorist group inside Bahrain to carry out terrorist attacks inside the kingdom. He was able to escape outside Bahrain and before his death in 2014, he recruited the first, second and third suspects all of them are fugitives living in Iran. He also recruited the fourth suspect who assumed the role of recruiting the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth suspects. He facilitated and arranged for the fourth, fifth and tenth suspects to travel to Iran to receive military training. After returning to Bahrain, he tasked them to receive shipments of weapons and materials to use in manufacturing explosives.

The fourth suspect, together with the fifth and seventh suspects, hid these shipments in a clandestine warehouse. The fourth, fifth and seventh suspects travelled to Iraq in early 2014 to receive military training to carry out terrorist attacks in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Several shipments of weapons and explosives were smuggled and cached in the Kingdom of Bahrain.

When arresting the suspects, various materials and devices used in manufacturing explosives were found and seized from their homes. Their clandestine warehouse, where they stored their explosive materials, was seized.

The Public Prosecution obtained the proof of their crime based on witness statements, confessions of suspects, technical evidence, and forensic reports. The defendants were referred to the High Criminal Court that deliberated the case in its sessions in the presence of their attorneys who were enabled to present their defensive arguments and provided them all the legal sureties before the court issued its above verdict.