DUBAI - A top Bahraini court upheld a 15-year jail term for 14 people on Monday after they were convicted of killing a Pakistani in Manama during the 2011 unrest, a judicial source said.
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The Court of Cassation announced its verdict in the presence of 12 of the accused, the source said, adding that the remaining two had been tried in absentia. A court convicted the defendants of beating the victim to death “for terrorist purposes”, the source said, citing the charge sheet.
A semi-military court established under a state of emergency in 2011 had originally sentenced the men to life in prison. But an appeals court reduced the sentence to 15 years in December last year. |