Court Upholds 15-Year Jail Verdict against Two Suspects Accused of Hurling Molotov against Al-Khamis Police Station

2019-03-13 - 6:13 p

Bahrain Mirror: The High Criminal Appeals Court rejected the appeals of two suspsects in case of attacking Al-Khamis police station with Molotov in September 2013 and as a result burning parts of it. 22 suspects were convicted in the case and sentenced to 15 years in jail. The court upheld the verdicts against the fifteenth and nineteenth suspects.

The Public Prosecution accused the suspects of deliberately setting, along with unknowns, fire to movables owned by the interior ministry, which would put people's lives and money to danger and taking part in an assembly of more than 5 persons, aiming at disrupting public peace, noting that they used violence to achieve the aim they gathered for.

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