Bahrain Mirror: Bahrain's Fifth High Criminal Court, presided over by judge Abdullah Al-Ashraf with the memberships of judges Mohsen Mabrouk and Motaz Abu Al-Ezz and Abdullah Mohammad as secretariat, sentenced a defendant, accused of setting fire to tires and planting a hoax bomb on Al-Budai street to 7 years in prison.

The Public Prosecution claimed that the suspect, on April 30, 2014, along with others, deliberately set fire to movable property, endangering people's lives and properties for a terrorist purpose, and planted a hoax bomb in a public place for terrorist aim as well.

Since 2012, riot cases that go under the demonstrations and riot section of the penal code were adapted to apply to the terrorism law, if there were "terrorist" purposes behind them, such as attempted murder of a police officer, violating the provisions of law and endangering the lives of people and their properties, within the regime's framework of harshening penalties against protestors and activists.

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