30 December 2015

BAHRAIN MEDIA ROUNDUP

the defendants received
sentences ranging from
five years to life in prison
over their convictions.

Bahrain says 29 people

sentenced to prison
over 2014 bombing
MANAMA, Bahrain (AP)
Bahrain says 29 people
have
been
sentenced
to prison over a 2014
bombing that targeted
police officers in the tiny
island kingdom.
The state-run Bahrain
News Agency quoted
Bahraini terror crimes
prosecutor
Gen.
Ahmed al-Hammadi as
announcing the verdicts
and saying that two of the
29 had their citizenship
revoked over the attack.
Al-Hammadi

also

Al-Hammadi said on
Tuesday that the Dec. 19,
2014, bombing damaged
police
vehicles
and
wounded officers.
Bahrain has faced lowlevel unrest for more than
four years, sparked by
widespread 2011 protests
among the country's Shiite
majority
demanding
greater political rights
from
the
Sunni-led
monarchy.
Bahrain hosts the U.S.
Navy's 5th Fleet.

Read more

said

Bahrain
court
sentences 29 people to
5-25 years jail for 2014
explosion: BNA
Bahrain's High Criminal
Court
has
sentenced
29 people to jail terms
ranging from five to 25
years for detonating an
explosive device intended
to kill policemen in 2014,
state news agency Bahrain
News
Agency
(BNA)
reported on Wednesday.

Dubai (AFP) - Bahrain has

handed down sentences
ranging from five years to
life in prison to 29 people
found guilty of attempting
to murder policemen in a
bomb attack last year.
The tiny Gulf state's High
Criminal
Court
also
revoked the citizenship
of two of those convicted,
terror crime prosecution
chief Ahmed al-Hammadi
said in a statement
published by the official
BNA news agency.
"The convictions relate
to attempted murder of
policemen, using and

The group were also found

guilty of "training in
order to commit terrorist
crimes," he added.
The statement, released
late Tuesday, said the
sentences were linked to
a bomb blast in a Shiite
village on December 19
last year that authorities
said left three policemen
slightly wounded.
It did not identify the
defendants
or
give
detailed information on
the convictions.

Read more

"The
defendants
will
continue to be afforded
full legal rights and access
to their legal counsel in
accordance with the laws,"
the statement said.

Read more

The attack last December

injured security personnel
and
damaged
patrol
vehicles, BNA said.
The court also revoked
the citizenship of two of
those jailed and ordered
27 to pay damages of
2782.130 Bahraini dinars
explosives and weapons,
rioting, and receiving
and providing explosives,
training in order to
commit terrorist crimes.

possessing explosives and

weapons, rioting, and
receiving and providing
explosives,"
Hammadi
said.

Bahrain jails 29 over

bomb attack on police

($7,389.46),
terror
crime prosecution chief
advocate General Ahmed
Al-Hammadi was quoted
as saying.

Bahrain jails 29 over

bomb attack on police
At least 29 people in
Bahrain were handed
down
jail
sentences
ranging from five years
to
life
imprisonment
on terror charges on
Wednesday, according to
Bahrain News Agency.
Terror Crime Prosecution
Chief Advocate, General
Ahmed
Al-Hammadi,
confirmed that the High
Criminal Court handed
out the sentences.
According to the news
report: The convictions
relate
to
attempted
murder of policemen,
using and possessing

Al-Hammadi
stated
that
Bahrains
High
Criminal Court revoked
the citizenship of two
individuals and ordered
twenty seven defendants
to pay heavy fines for
damages.
The suspects were charged
for an incident that took
place Dec. 19, 2014,
when the individuals in
question detonated an
explosive device with
the intent of murdering
policemen. The explosion
caused injuries to security
personnel and damage to
patrol vehicles.

Read more

Bahraini jet taking part

in Yemen war crashes
in
Saudi
Arabia:
coalition
A Bahraini F-16 jet taking
part in a mostly Gulf
Arab military campaign
in Yemen crashed in
southern Saudi Arabia on
Wednesday, according to a
coalition statement on the
Saudi state news agency.
The pilot survived after
the plane suffered a
technical fault and came
down in the Jizan region,
the
statement
added,
without going into further
detail.

nine months, and scores

of ground forces from the
United Arab Emirates,
Bahrain and Saudi Arabia
have been killed since the
start of the conflict.
In a separate incident,
Bahrain's official news
agency BNA reported
on Tuesday that three
of its servicemen were
killed
along
Saudi
Arabia's southern border
in an accident, without
providing
any
more
details.

Read more

Bahrain has taken part

in the Saudi-led coalition
bombing the Iran-allied
Houthi movement for

Bahrain F-16 crashes

in Saudi near Yemen
border: coalition
Riyadh (AFP) - A Bahraini
fighter jet taking part in
the Saudi-led coalition
battling rebel forces in
Yemen crashed Wednesday
in Saudi Arabia due to
a "technical error," the
alliance said.

A Royal Bahraini Air

Force F-16 fighter jet
taking part in airstrikes
against Houthi rebels
in Yemen crashed in
southern Saudi Arabia on
Wednesday, the Saudiled military coalition has
confirmed in a statement.
A pilot from the Bahraini
contingent participating
in the coalition survived
after the fall of his F-16
plane in the Jizan region
this morning due to a
technical malfunction,

It did not say how they had

died or when the incident
took place.

Read more

The F-16 jet crashed in the

kingdom's southwestern
region of Jazan near
the border with Yemen,
the coalition said in a
statement on the official
SPA news agency.
The pilot "survived" the
crash, it said, without
specifying his condition.

Aircraft
commander
Capt. Ali Jassim has
survived the incident
and was hospitalized,
the newspaper added.

Reuters reported, citing

a statement on the Saudi
state news agency.

Bahraini
F-16
on
Yemen mission crashes
in Saudi Arabia

The incident comes a day

after Bahrain said that
three of its soldiers had
died "in an incident on the
southern borders of Saudi
Arabia."

The Saudi-led coalition

has been battling the
Houthi rebels in Yemen
since March. Riyadh went
to war in Yemen to put
back into power ousted
President Abd Rabbuh
Mansur Hadi, who fled
from the Shiite Houthi
rebels after his two-year
term expired in January.
His
predecessor,
Ali
Abdullah Saleh, formerly
an opponent of the rebels,
is now their ally, assisting
them with his loyal tribal
troops.

Read more

Bahraini
F-16
Jet
Crashes on SaudiYemeni Border
A Bahraini air force
F-16 jet taking part
in airstrikes against
Houthi targets crashed
in Saudi Arabia near
the Yemeni border,
the Saudi-led coalition
announced
on
Wednesday.
MOSCOW (Sputnik)
The crash in the coastal
Jizan region is thought
to be a "technical
glitch," the coalition
said according to the
Al Riyadh daily.

Bahraini
Foreign
Minister Khalid bin
Ahmed Al Khalifa
confirmed the pilots
safety on his Twitter
account.
Bahrain is part of the
Saudi-led
coalition
conducting airstrikes
against
Houthi
positions since March
at the request of
Yemens president in
exile.

Read more

statement on the official

SPA news agency.
The pilot was
safely, it said.

Bahrain F-16 crashes

in Saudi near Yemen
border after 'technical
issue'
#YemenCrisis
The coalition said that
the crash was caused by
a technical error and that
the pilot has been located
safely
A Bahraini fighter jet
taking part in the Saudiled coalition battling rebel
forces in Yemen crashed
on Wednesday in Saudi
Arabia due to a "technical
error," the alliance said.
The F-16 jet crashed in the
kingdom's southwestern
region of Jizan near the
border
with
Yemen,
the coalition said in a

located

Bahrain announced on
Tuesday that three of its
soldiers had been killed
close to the Saudi - Yemeni
border. No further details
about the incident were
released but cross-border
fire from the conflict in
Yemen has previously
killed both soliders and
civilians .
Bahrain is part of the
Saudi-led mainly Arab
coalition that has been
bombing Yemen since
March in an attempt to
roll back Houthi forces
and their allies and
return the government
of President Abd Rabbuh
Mansour Hadi to power.

Read more