Four sentenced to death in Bahrain for killing policemen during protests
April 29th, 2011 - 3:25 pm ICT by ANIDubai, Apr 29 (ANI): A Bahrain military court has sentenced four men to death for allegedly killing two policemen in Manama last month.
The National Safety Lower Court said that Ali Abdullah Hassan Al Singees, Qassim Hassan Mattar Ahmad, Saeed Abdul Jalil Saeed and Abdul Aziz Abdul Rida Ebrahim Hussain would be executed for killing policemen Kashef Ahmad Mandhoor and Mohammad Farouq Abdul Samad.
The court also sentenced Eisa Abdullah Kadhem Ali, Syed Sadiq Ali Mahdi and Hussain Jaafar Abdul Kareem to life imprisonment for their role in the incident.
The men allegedly hit the policemen with large vans and then ran over them in an open area near the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) roundabout, popularly known as the Pearl Roundabout, The Gulf News reports.
On Sunday, the military prosecutor in his closing statement sought the death penalty for the seven defendants, but the defense team said that they should be acquitted.
Executions in Bahrain are very rare. In 1996, Eisa Qambar, 29, was executed by firing squad after he was convicted of killing a police officer during the 1990s unrest. The execution was the first in Bahrain in 20 years. (ANI)
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