Bahrain jails 5 for life over pipeline bomb attack

Acourt in Bahrain yesterday sentenced five defendants to life in prison after they were found guilty of the bomb attack on an oil pipeline in November last year. The High Criminal Court also ordered them to pay fines of 200,000 dinars (Dh1.94 million).

Five of the defendants were told to pay 64,577 dinars for the damages they caused. A sixth defendant was sentenced to 10 years in prison while a seventh was given five years in jail and ordered to pay a 100,000 dinar fine.

The court also revoked the Bahraini citizenship of six of the defendants.

The charges levelled against them included forming and joining a terror group, possessing and using explosives, causing a terrorist blast, training in the use of weapons and explosives, and financing and participating in acts of terror.

According to the case documents, two of the defendants, both fugitives abroad, set up a terror group and recruited the other members. Two others received training on the use of weapons and the making of explosives in camps run by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. One of them asked the other cell members to blow up the oil pipeline in the Buri area.