MANAMA: A court in Bahrain sentenced two men to death and handed a third a life sentence on Monday after they were convicted of killing a policeman.
The verdict was announced by the chief prosecutor of terrorist crimes who said that the three were among 12 people charged with a bomb attack in February that killed the policeman Abdel-Wahed Sayed Mohammed Faqeer in the village of Al-Dair, north of the capital Manama.
The court sentenced the remaining nine suspects to six years in jail and fined them BD1,000 ($2,652) each, according the official Twitter account of Bahrain’s Public Prosecution.
The court ruling, which is subject to appeal, is only the fourth time in over 34 years that death sentences have been passed on Bahraini citizens.
It came a day after authorities detained Sheikh Ali Salman, head of the main opposition group Al-Wefaq, who led a rally last week to denounce Bahrain’s November elections which were boycotted by the opposition.
Bahrain hands death to two for killing cop
