A Bahrain court sentenced three people to death and 14 others to lengthy prison terms on charges they established a terrorist cell with the intent of killing policemen, al-Wasat, an independent Bahraini news website, reported Thursday.

A Bahraini court sentenced three Shi'ite Muslim men to death on Thursday after they were convicted on charges of terrorism and involvement in 2014 bomb attacks that injured a number of police officers.

A Bahraini court issued on Thursday (March 23, 2017) death penalties against 3 defendants in a politically-motivated case in which they were accused of establishing terrorist group, acquiring weapons and carrying out blasts, among them the blast that led to death of policeman in “Al-Qarya”.

The High Criminal Court adjourned the case of prominent activist, and head of Bahrain Center for Human Rights, Nabeel Rajab, until May 17, 2017.

The major administrative court postponed on Monday (March 20, 2017) the first hearing on dissolving the National Democratic Action Society "Wa'ad" to April 17, so that the defense lawyers representing Wa'ad could present their proxies.

The First High Criminal Court sentenced 2 defendants to 3 years in prison over taking part in kidnapping their two friends, beating them and stealing them, claiming they work as informants to the ministry of interior.

Bahraini High Criminal Appeals Court denied the challenge of a defendant sentenced to 15 years in prison, while upholding a life imprisonment sentence against another in the case involving the murder of a Pakistani national, known as the “Shabab al-Manama” case during 2011.

Bahraini appeals court upheld a 3-month jail sentence issued against Shiite cleric Sheikh Isa Al-Moemen over charges of “inciting hatred against the regime.”

The Supreme Court of Appeal overruled the appeal presented by a defendant accused of kidnapping a police officer during the 2011 events.

The Supreme Court of Appeal amended a verdict issued against a defendant, from 10 years to 7 years in prison. The defendant is accused of attempting to kill a police officer, illegal assembly, and possessing weapons in Diraz.

The Supreme Court of Appeal commuted the prison sentence against the Bahraini who killed Bahraini young man Hussein al-Asfour, from 15 years to 10 years.

The Supreme Court of Appeal upheld a 3-year prison verdict against a defendant over a case linked to illegal assembly and riots.

The Fourth High Criminal extended the detention of a suspect accused of joining the “ISIS” group to 15 days and ordered to transfer him to the psychiatric hospital.

Bahrain's Supreme Court of Appeal upheld 10-year jail term against 2 appellants and lengthened the 7-year jail term of another to 10. It also bound them, along with the other convicted by the first-instance court, to pay 2149 BD and 600 fils for the damages caused in the ministry of interior’s vehicle and ordered the confiscation of seized items.

Bahrain's Supreme Court of Appeal presided over by Judge Mohammad bin Ali Al Khalifa and Naji Abdullah as a secretariat upheld 3-year jail term against 4 appellants over arson and assembly case.

The Third Minor Criminal Court issued a verdict sentencing two defendants to 3 years in prison. The defendants were accused of illegal assembly, damaging vehicles owned by Ministry of Education, in the Bahraini town of Karzakan.

The civilian court rejected a lawsuit submitted by the National Institution for Human Rights in which it demanded to consider the contract between the landlord and the tenant formal, after it paid one million BD to the tenant who leased it from the sublet.

The Fourth High Criminal Court sentenced 2 defendants (19 and 23 years) to 5 years in prison after convicting them of assembling and burning tires in Buri.

Bahrain's Supreme Court upheld 7-year jail term against a suspect and 10-year jail term against another one over assembling in Diraz.

Bahrain's Supreme Court upheld 10-year jail term against 3 defendants and 13-year jail term against another one over burning patrol, assembling and acquiring ammunitions.