The Lower National Safety Court has begun the trial of 21 suspects involved in the case of the terrorist attempts to topple the regime forcibly in collaboration with a terrorist organization working for a foreign country.
Those questioned included Abdulwahab Hussain Ali Ahmed, Ibrahim Sharif Abdulraheem Mossa, Hassan Ali Mushaima, Abdulhadi Al Khawaja, Abduljalil Abdullah Al Singace, Mohammed Habib Al Saffaf, Saeed Mirza Ahmed, Abduljalil Radhi Mansoor Makki (Abduljalil Al Muqdad), Abdulhadi Abdulla Mahdi Hassan, Al Hurr Yousif Mohammed, Abdullah Isa Al Mahroos, Salah Hubail Al Khawaja, Mohammed Hassan Jawad and Mohammed Ali Ismael.
Others Absentia are: Akeel Ahmed Al Mafoodh, Ali Hassan Abdullah, Abdulghani Ali Khanjar, Saeed Abdulnabi Shehab, Abdulraoof Al Shayeb, Abbas Al Umran and Ali Hassan Mushaima.
The court decided to postpone the case hearing to Thursday 12 May 2011, to enable the defendant committee to receive the referrals decision and have permission to meet their clients, and allow the rest defendants to appoint their own lawyers, as well as having the approval of meeting their families.
In another criminal case, the Lower National Safety Court continued to ponder the incident of attempting to murder a number of security men, and the destruction of public properties, where the accused was called Hamad Yousif Kadhem.
The court heard the comments of the military prosecution about the testimony of defense witnesses, whereas the military prosecution merely litigated its previous concluding that was presented in the case on Thursday April 28, 2011.
The defendant’s attorney presented a written appeal in which he confirmed his client’s innocence from the charges against him, based on lack of intent and the insistence of his client to harm the security men as he suffered from exposure to anger bouts coming from a genetic disease.
The court decided to adjourn the case to 12 of May 2011 for deliberation and sentencing. The meeting was attended by representatives of the organizations and associations concerned with human rights, as well as a number of relatives of the defendants.
It is worth mentioning that the national safety trials are ongoing in special courts not military courts, in light of declaring the state of national safety in the Kingdom of Bahrain, which defines the nature of these courts that differ from military courts. In addition to providing all the guarantees, accused were allowed to meet people.
Special courts consist of two civilian judges and one military judge to reflect the fairness of the judicial system in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
It is noteworthy that attending trials is permitted for all civil society institutions, human rights organizations and media representatives to reflect the Kingdom’s keenness to respect its international commitments in the field of human rights.