A Bahraini court has started the trial of six protesters accused by the Interior Ministry of attempting to kill a number of police officers, a charge usually directed at protesters in Bahrain.

The Fourth High Criminal Court sentenced two defendants to five years in prison and revoked their citizenships for training on firearms and explosives in one of Iran's Revolutionary Guard camps, and acquiring weapons without a license.

Clashes erupted between police and protesters in Bahrain before a hearing in the trial of a leading Shiite cleric accused of illegal collection of funds and money laundering, witnesses said Monday. The court later announced the final hearing to be February 12, before deferring it to February 27.

The Second High Criminal Court acquitted former colonel in the National Security Apparatus, Adel Flayfel after a first tier court previously indicted Flayfel, and sentenced him to 3 years in prison, in a �betrayal of trust� case.

The Bahraini High Court of Appeals upheld a first degree verdict issued against an appellant over burning a tent owned by a parliamentary election candidate.

The high criminal court renewed the detention of a defendant working in the Ministry of Interior for 15 days pending investigation over embezzlement.

Bahraini Criminal Court sentenced 6 defendants to 7 years in prison after convicting them of attempted murder of policeman.

A Bahraini High Appeals Court upheld prison sentences issued by a first degree court against 10 appellants over charges of burning a police patrol vehicle, assembling and having possession of ammunition.

The Bahraini high criminal court sentenced one defendant to 3 years in prison and 6 other to 10 over charges of assembling and setting fire to an armored police vehicle in Al-Ekr.