19 get jail for terror activities in Bahrain
Manama : The Fourth High Criminal Court yesterday sentenced eight persons to life in prison, 11 others to 10 and 15 years for terrorism related crimes.
The judges also revoked the citizenship of 15 members of the “Al Basta” group and fined two of them BD100,000 each. The accused were charged with conspiring with a foreign state and a terrorist organisation; working for their interests and receiving funds to carry out hostile acts to harm the national interests and to establish a terrorist group contrary to the provisions of the law and to join it and finance terrorist groups.
Court files showed that the defendants were members of “Al Wafaa Al Islami” movement and had planned to create a secret cell working under its umbrella.
The “Al Basta”, terror cell was formed to support the movement by incitement of the Bahraini society against the regime and the dissemination of biased statements and propaganda calling for a change of government using violence and force.
Investigations proved that the defendants had secretly met with members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Hezbollah terrorist Organisation Leader Hassan Nasrallah.
“The meetings were to receive financial and technical support in order to perform criminal plans of the terrorist cell inside the Kingdom of Bahrain and to finance their activities,” Terror Crime Prosecution Chief Advocate General Ahmed Al Hammadi said in statement issued in Manama yesterday.
The official also unveiled the defendants were proven guilty of providing leaders in the Revolutionary Guard and Hezbollah with intelligence and periodic confidential reports that provide them with information related to the political, social and economic conditions of the Kingdom.
He explained, “The reports also include the operations of the cell and the expenditures of the funds provided by these two terrorist entities. It was also proven that the funds were utilised to finance and support the cell and other terrorist groups in Bahrain and encouraging them to carry out terrorist activities to harm the political and economic interests of the country and harm its national security. The case was deliberated in court sessions in the presence of the attorneys of the accused, who were provided with all their legal rights of defence.”
Earlier police investigations showed that the cell was founded by twin brothers, Ali Fakhrawi, 33, and Mohammed Fakhrawi, 33. The cell had direct links with individuals involved in the Sitra terrorist blast that killed two policemen and injured six others in July, 2015.
Some of the people sentenced
1. Ali Ahmed Fakhrawi, 33
2 Mohammed Ahmed Fakhrawi, 33
3. Murtadha Majeed Ramadan Alawi (Al Sanadi), 33 (fugitive in Iran wanted in a number of terrorist cases)
4. Zuhair Jassim Mohammed Abas, 35
5. Mohammed Ahmed Abdullah Sarhan, 41
6. Hussain Abdulwahab Hussain, 28
7. Ibrahim Jaffar Hassan, 29
8. Hameed Ali Mansoor, 59
9. Mohammed Abduljalil Ali, 46
10. Mohammed Abdulredha Hassan (Al Jazeeri), 28
11. Qassim Majeed Ramadan, 28 (fugitive)
12. Isa Jassim Al Qafas, 34
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