Bahrain Mirror: Bahrain's Fifth High Criminal Court, presided over by judge Abdullah Al-Ashraf and membership of judges Mohsen Ibrahim and Ousama Al-Shathili and Abdullah Mohammad as secretariat, sentenced 4 suspects to 3 years in prison over assembling, setting fire to water tanks in Burhama and ordered the confiscation of seized items.

The Public Prosecution claimed that the suspects, on November 11, 2015, in the Capital Governorate, along with others, deliberately set fire to the aforementioned property, endangering people's lives and properties for a terrorist purpose. It also accused them of taking part, along with other unknown suspects, in an assembly of more than 5 people, aiming at disturbing public peace and using violence to achieve the aim they gathered for.

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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