A Bahrain court upheld on Monday life verdicts and prison sentences in terrorism cases dating to 2017 and 2018. Chief Prosecutor Isa Al Ruwaie, the Acting Chief of the Terror Crime Prosecution, said the Court of Cassation upheld the verdicts of life in jail for eight suspects, 15 years in prison for nine suspects and ten years for two. The court also ruled the suspects pay BD 100,000 and the revocation of the Bahraini citizenship of 15 suspects, reported the Bahrain news agency (BNA). The convicts were accused of providing intelligence information to a foreign country and a terrorist organization working for it, receiving money from that country to carry out hostile acts and undermine the kingdom’s national interests, forming a terrorist group and joining it and funding a terrorist organization. The Fourth High Criminal Court sentenced on October 30, 2017 eight suspects to life in prison, nine suspects to 15 years and two suspects to ten years. It also ruled the suspects pay a fine of BD 100,000 and the revocation of the citizenship of fifteen suspects. The High Court of Appeal upheld the challenged verdicts in its ruling on March 7, 2018. Ruwaie also upheld the death sentence against two convicts and the imprisonment verdicts handed down to the other convicts who challenged the court ruling in the case of forming a terrorist group, training on using weapons and explosives for terrorist purposes, murder and attempted murder of policemen, possessing explosives, fire weapons and ammunition, resisting with force officials in charge of enforcing the law, escaping after arrest, helping convicts to escape from prison and hiding convicts sentenced to prison. The High Criminal Court sentenced on January 31, 2018, two suspects to death and handed down jail terms of lifetime to 19 suspects, 15 years to 17 suspects, ten years to nine suspects and five years to 11 suspects. The court also acquitted two suspects, ruled the revocation of Bahraini citizenship of 47 suspects and ordered to confiscate the seized items. The High Court of Appeal accepted in its ruling on January 28th, 2019, the suspects’ challenge of the verdicts in form, commuted the jail terms of four female suspects sentenced to three years in prison and upheld the appealed verdict. The convicts were charged with forming and joining a terrorist organization alongside other suspects, including 12 abroad (in Iran, Iraq and Germany) and 46 in Bahrain, including the ten fugitives who escaped from prison. The Public Prosecution accused the suspects of possessing fire weapons and explosives which were seized on a boat on the beach in Nabih Saleh. A warehouse for storing explosive devices, weapons and ammunition was also found in Sitra on December 1, 2016. The suspects also faced charges of attacking the Jaw Prison’s Reform and Rehabilitation Centre and helping convicts in terror cases to escape. A policeman died in the attack and many others were injured. The suspects were also accused of stealing fire weapons on January 1, 2017, opening fire on a police patrol and injuring a policeman in Bani Jamrah on January 14, 2017, killing a policeman in front of his farm, in Bilad Al Qadeem, on January 28, 2017, attempting to escape abroad and resisting policemen by opening fire on them in the kingdom’s territorial water which resulted in the death of three members of the organization on February 9, 2017. The security bodies arrested many of the suspects and searched their homes and places used as warehouses where they seized explosives, fire weapons, ammunition, cars and boats used in carrying out terrorist acts and smuggling operations.