Bahrain Court of Appeals upheld on Monday the death sentence of two Bahraini nationals convicted of killing two policemen and injuring six others in a bus bombing on Sitra Island in July 2015.
The appeals court also upheld all sentences in life imprisonment, between six months and 10 years of 20 other convicts in the case, revoked the Bahraini nationality of 9 of them, and obliged 7 of them to pay a fine of 6,600 Bahraini dinars.
The case dates back to July 28, 2015 when terrorists bombed a police bus in Sitra which claimed the life of two policemen and injured six others.
The High Court of Appeals ruled in the case of establishment, formation, joining, financing and running of a terrorist group to break the law, according Terror Crime Prosecution Chief Ahmed al-Hammadi.
The terrorist group had killed two policemen and attempted to murder several others, possessed, handled and used explosive devices, weapons and incendiary devices, damaged properties, assisted and concealed fugitive terrorists to escape justice without reporting to the authorities. They also entered and exited Bahrain unlawfully.
In March 2017, the High Criminal Court sentenced two defendants to death, five defendants to a life in jail, six defendants to ten years each, one defendant to five years in jail, two defendants to three years each and two defendants to two years each, and four defendants to six months incarceration.
The court acquitted four of the defendants.
