Terrorist Crimes Prosecution referred 21 suspects, including 15 who are in custody, to the High Criminal Court for a hearing on April 19 after the prosecution completed its thorough investigations. The suspects were charged with the illegal setting up of a terrorist group, joining it and financing its activities, handling, making and possessing explosives, weapons and ammunition, training on the use of weapons and explosives, and harboring and assisting runaway convicts to escape justice, according to Terror Crime Chief Prosecutor Ahmed al-Hammadi. The Public Prosecution received a report from the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (CID) informing that a fugitive who was residing in Iran had carried out several terrorist crimes in Bahrain. The fugitive recruited an accomplice to implement his terrorist plots in Bahrain, receive and conceal explosives and firearms smuggled into the country, and establish a warehouse to keep the materials until distribution to other accomplices who will carry out his criminal plot of targeting security forces. He also tasked an accomplice with the formation of a terrorist cell in Bahrain and the recruitment of several elements to assist him in implementing a terrorist plot. Two suspects had undergone military training in Iraq on how to use explosives and weapons, and some suspects harbored group members, provided logistic support to them, and concealed them from the security authorities in order to smuggle them out of Bahrain to Iran illegally. The Prosecution referred the suspects to the court reliant upon statements, including witness testimonies, technical evidences, CID reports as well as the suspects’ confessions.