Bahrain Mirror: Bahrain's Third High Criminal Court, presided over by Judge Ibrahim Al-Zayed with the membership of judges Wajih Al-Shaer and Ibrahim Al-Jafen and Yusuf Bou Hardan as secretariat, sentenced five suspects to 5 years in prison and ordered confiscating seized items.

The Prosecution claimed that the suspects intentionally set fire to tires with unknown others on September 21, 2014 on a public road, endangering people's lives and properties for a terrorist purpose. The prosecution further added that they also planted hoax explosives, participated with unknown others in an assembly of more than 5 persons aiming at breaching public security, and used violence to achieve the purpose they gathered for. They had possession of "Molotov" cocktails to use them in a manner that endangers people's lives and public properties, it also claimed.

Since 2012, the known riot cases which are listed under the riot act have been amended to apply to the terrorism act, as new terrorist aims and pretexts have been attributed to these cases, such as the attempted murder of policemen, breaching the provisions of law and putting people's lives and properties in danger, in order to harshen the sentences issued against protesters and activists.

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