The first Lower National Safety Court heard six criminal cases, the Military Prosecutor said.
In the first case, Abbas Hassan Ali Malallah stood trial over charges of attempted murder and taking part in illegal protests.
The hearing was adjourned to June 15 to allow the defendant to hire a defence lawyer.
Five other suspects will also be tried on the same date after being accused of hiding in two defendants’ houses.
They, too, have to hire lawyers.
The same things apply to the case of forming an armed gang (using white weapons), protesting illegally and attacking others for criminal ends in which seventeen suspects are tried.
Those accused of cutting the tongue of the Asian Muazzin, spoiling private money, breaking into a house without its owner’s permission and inciting others to assault innocent people appeared before the court again and denied the charges.
The Military Prosecution, however, asserted that the nine suspects’ confessions, results of the investigation and forensic experts’ report are enough to indict them, and expressed its right to present a final pleading.
The court accepted the defence team’s request to summon defence witnesses during the next hearing on June 16, agreed to have some defendants be examined by forensic experts and allowed the lawyers to have access to the case documents.
The court adjourned to the same date the case of sixteen defendants who were accused of seizing the Khamis Police Station and attempting to damage, attempting to set fire to a building, inciting the hatred of the ruling system, protesting illegally, using violence, making and holding Molotov cocktails.
The suspects have to hire lawyers before they appear at the court on June 16 over the same charges.
In the sixth case, in which Yussef Abdulwahab Al Taweel and Ali Atiyya Mahdi Al Shamloul were accused of killing policeman Ahmed Ahmed Al Mrissi while on duty in Sitra, the court heard the defence witnesses’ testimonies, as requested by the lawyers.
The next hearing, on June 15, will be dedicated to the final pleadings.
Present were Salman Nasser from the Gulf European Center for Human Rights, Atiyatollah Rohani from the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR), Mohammed Al Sumaikh and Abdulla Al Dirazi from the Bahrain Human Rights Society, as well as some relatives of the defendants and the victims.