Bahrain Mirror: Bahrain's Court of Cassation accepted on Monday (January 18, 2016) the appeal submitted by lawyer Wafaa Marhoon over the verdict issued by the Court of Appeals, sentencing 18 suspects from the island of Nabih Saleh to prison terms ranging between 5 and 7 years.

The Court of Cassation overturned the verdict referring the case once again to the Court of Appeals in order to issue a new sentence.

The Public Prosecution accused the suspects of assaulting, with unknown others, policemen, deliberately setting tires on fire, endangering people's lives and properties for a terrorist purpose, and participating in an assembly of more than 5 persons to disturb public security as well as having possession of Molotov cocktails.

The Bahraini authorities claimed that the Nabih Saleh police station witnessed through surveillance cameras around 50 persons gathered on their way to attack the police station. They claimed that this group of people set fire to tires on the street leading to the Officers' Club. When the security forces headed to the site of incident, the crowd attacked them using Molotov cocktails and iron rods, which left a policeman injured. The suspects fled the scene, yet they were reached through investigations.

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