The Lower National Safety Court has adjourned the hearing of the case of Ayat Hassan Mohammed to June 6, announced the Military Prosecutor.
During the hearing, Ayat Hassan, who was tried over taking part in illegal protests for criminal ends and inciting the hatred of the ruling system, denied the charges.
The General Prosecution, however, insisted that that investigations’ minutes and probes provide enough proof of the suspect’s guilt.
The court decided to hear the final pleadings during the next session.
The court also adjourned another case in which 13 people were accused of kidnapping policeman Nasser Ali Awadh Al Mhiri and participating in illegal protests for terrorist intentions to June 9 in order to enable the defendants to hire lawyers.
The Lower National Safety Court also adjourned to the same date the hearing of the case related to the Incidents that took place at the University of Bahrain (UoB), in which seven people were accused of setting fire purposefully, attempted murder, spoiling UoB buildings, holding Molotov cocktails, attacking people and theft.
During the session, the defendants pleaded not guilty, but the Military Prosecution asserted that investigations and reports of the Forensic Science Laboratory are enough proofs of their guiltiness.
The court decided to summon witnesses during the next hearing, allowed the defence team to have access to forensic evidence, agreed to let three suspects be examined by forensic experts and requested medical treatment for the rest.
In another case, 15 defendants stood trial for murdering the Pakistani national Abdulla Malik Abdulla, assaulting other people, protesting for criminal intentions and disrupting public security.
The court heard witnesses’ testimonies in which they said that some people, holding weapons and daggers, broke into their flat and beat the four residents, which led the death of the victim.
The court decided to adjourn the case to June 9 and accepted the defence requests to summon forensic experts and have access to copies of pathological treatment, blood test and death certificate and the medical file of one of the defendants.
The court also adjourned to the same date another case in which six people were accused of attempting to murder Abdul Khaliq Moussa Saleh, protesting for criminal ends and disturbing public order so as to enable suspects to hire lawyers.
In another context, the second Lower National Safety tried a number of defendants over charges of participating in illegal protests for criminal ends, rioting and disturbing public security and issued the following verdicts.
Abdulla Ahmed Hassan, Mohammed Ibrahim Ali, Abdul Amir Mohammed Ali and Ja’afar Mohammed Ridha were sentenced to one year imprisonment, Abdulnabi Hassan Ahmed to four years and Salah Mahdi Isa to five years.
Ali Abdulla Hassan was given a three-year jail sentence, but was acquitted of calling for the hatred of the ruling system.
The court, however, found Mohammed Ahmed Abdulla not guilty of the same charges.
The same court heard other cases and adjourned them to other dates either to enable defence teams to prepare their final pleadings or to enable defendants to hire defence lawyers.
Present were Salman Nasser from the Gulf European Centre for Human Rights, Abdulla Al Dirazi and Mohammed Al Sumaikh from the Bahrain Human Rights Society, Abdulnabi Hassan Mansoor from the Bahrain Transparency Society (BTS), as well as some relatives of the defendants and the victims.