Manama, April 29: Four Bahrainis were sentenced to death, while three others got life term for killing two policemen.
The National Safety Court passed the death verdicts on Ali Al Sankees, Abdulaziz Hussain, Qassim Mattar and Saeed Abduljaleel. The court sentenced three others — Hussain Jafar Abdulkareem, Sadiq Ali Mahdi and Isa Abdullah Kadhem — to life in prison.
They were convicted of murdering policemen Kashef Ahmed Mandhour and Mahmoud Farooq Abdulsamad.
The policemen were run over by two cars of the convicts during the evacuation of the GCC roundabout in mid-March following unrest. Parts of the confessions of the seven convicts were aired on Bahrain TV in which they revealed details about how they planned and carried out the crime.
The trial was held in the presence of representatives of local and foreign human rights organisations, local media and some relatives of the convicts.
According to Bahrain TV, the convicts have the right to appeal the sentences. Bahrain’s state news agency said the verdicts could be appealed and that the convicts had “every judicial guarantee according to law and in keeping with human rights standards”.
The National Safety Court will soon look into another murder case of a policeman, Ahmed Al Miraisi, who was also killed in mid-March during operations to restore law and order after the declaration of the three-month state of emergency in the country.
One Bahraini youth is accused of murdering the cop.
-Agencies