The Appeal National Safety Court postponed the case of murdering two policemen Kashif Ahmed Mandhor and Mohammed Farouq AbdulSamad to 22nd May to issue its final verdict.
In an early verdict, the Lower National Safety Court sentenced four defendants to death including Ali Abdulla Hassan Al Sangees, Qassim Hassan Mattar Ahmed, Saeed Abduljaleel Saeed and Abdulaziz Abdulredha Ibrahim Hussain. The Court also sentenced three others defendants to life imprisonment including Isa Abdullla Kadhim Ali, Sayed Sadiq Ali Mahdi and Hussain Ja’afar Abdulkareem.
The National Safety Courts were set up according to the Royal Decree on the declaration of the State of National Safety, which determined the nature of each one ruled that each of them should consist of two civil judges and a military one in order to ensure the fairness of the judicial system in the Kingdom and safeguards the suspects’ right for fair trials and allowed them to appeal the verdicts.