Bahrain jails eight for attacks on police

Bahrain's High Criminal Court on Tuesday sentenced eight people to between three and 10 years in prison for attacking police in the Gulf state, the official BNA news agency reported.

Six defendants were given 10-year sentences and two were jailed for three years, BNA said, citing the prosecutor in "terrorist" cases, Advocate General and Chief of the Terror Crime Prosecution Ahmed Al Hammadi.

The eight went on trial for their alleged involvement in incidents in April last year in the village of Saar, west of the capital Manama.

They were accused of setting tyres alight, placing fake bombs in the streets and being involved in a petrol bomb attack on security forces, Hammadi said.

Caption : Defendants received full legal rights throughout the trial process.