Court to hear terror cell case on April 19

Manama : Twenty-one suspects, including 15 who are in custody, have been referred to the High Criminal Court for a hearing on April 19 after thorough investigations were completed by the Prosecution, Terror Crime Chief Prosecutor Ahmed Al Hammadi, said.
The suspects were charged with the illegal establishment and joining of a terrorist group, financing its activities, handling, manufacturing and possession of explosives, weapons and ammunitions, training to use weapons and explosives, harbouring and assisting runaway convicts to escape justice.

The Public Prosecution received a report from the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (CID) informing that a fugitive who was residing in Iran had committed several terrorist crimes inside Bahrain. He recruited an accomplice to implement his terrorist plots inside Bahrain, receive and conceal the explosive materials and firearms smuggled into the country, establish a warehouse to keep the materials until distribution to other accomplices who will carry out his criminal plot of targeting the security forces.

He also tasked an accomplice with the formation of a terrorist cell inside Bahrain, and recruitment of several elements to assist him in implementing a terrorist plot. The accomplice was able to establish the terrorist cell and recruited other accomplices to assist him in his receiving smuggled arms, ammunitions, explosive substances and divide them into several packages, manufacture and conceal them in their homes to distribute them to the remaining members of the terrorist group.

Two suspects had undergone military training in Iraq on how to use explosives and weapons. Some of the suspects undertook different roles by harbouring the group members, provided logistic support to them, concealed them from the security authorities in order to smuggle them out of Bahrain to Iran via unlawful means.

The Prosecution referred the suspects to the court reliant upon verbal statements, including witness testimonies, technical evidences, CID reports as well as suspects’ confessions.