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The First High Criminal Court in Bahrain ruled that 8 convicts were sentenced to life imprisonment “after their involvement in forming a terrorist cell supported by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.”
The Public Prosecution began investigating the case, after the arrest of a number of defendants in January last year, and in light of the findings of the investigations that “some of the main defendants fled Bahrain, settled in Iran and received financial and logistical support from the terrorist Revolutionary Guard.”
The accusations stated that “they established a group to commit terrorist operations inside the kingdom, and recruited the rest of the accused who later joined and began committing crimes with the aim of spreading terror among people, spreading chaos in society and weakening the foundations of the state.”
And “the defendants planned to cause bombings in the Kingdom and targeting security personnel, and some of them received training in the use of firearms and explosives.”
On the other hand, the investigations revealed that, after the assassination of the Quds Force commander, Qassem Soleimani, one of them asked the leaders of the group to avenge his death, calling their group the “Martyr Qassem Soleimani’s Company”, and that name was approved.
The prosecution stressed that “based on the conclusive evidence against the defendants, the prosecution ordered that they be referred to trial, 9 of whom were imprisoned and the same was fugitive. The case was discussed before the High Criminal Court, where the imprisoned defendants were represented in the presence of their lawyer, and the case was issued.”
Source: “Al-Ayyam” + “Gulf News”
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