The High Criminal Appeals Court uphelds the sentences of seven appellants convicted of making explosives and weapons
The High Criminal Appeals Court has upheld the sentences of seven appellants convicted of making explosives and weapons in a Nuwaidrat warehouse. Eleven men were tried in the case, but only seven of them challenged initial verdicts against them, although the High Criminal Court held all of them guilty.
All convicts except the eleventh defendant were sentenced to life in prison. The latter was handed down ten years behind bars, while the nationality of all 11 convicts were revoked. The incident which led to the case occurred in 2015 when police seized a large quantity of foreign “military grade” weapons and explosives from a house in Nuwaidrat.
The Interior Ministry said that these explosives and bomb-making materials were planned to be used in terror attacks and the suspects were linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps and Lebanese terrorist organisation Hizbollah. The sophisticated bomb-manufacturing facility contained in excess of 1.5 tonnes of highgrade explosives, including C4-RDX, TNT as well as other powerful chemical explosives. According to official records, the warehouse belonged to the terrorist cell established by the first defendant who divided it into two groups, the first of which was under the leadership of the second defendant, while the third defendant presided over the second one. Each defendant reportedly played a role in one of the groups.
The second group, rented vehicles that were used to deliver the weapons and were involved in delivering the items to terrorists in Bahrain. Police records indicate that many among the defendants travelled to Iran and Iraq, where co-terrorists trained them on making weapons.
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