Dog torturing case adjourned to hear witnesses’ statements

The Third Minor Criminal Court has adjourned the case of a Bahraini man accused of brutally torturing a dog to April 16 to hear witnesses’ testimonies. The court also ordered to extend the detention of the suspect, who has been behind bars since March 23, 2019. The man confessed to the prosecutors during his interrogation last month and he told the judges that he had tortured the dog because it attacked his cattle.

As reported by Tribune last month, the man was arrested a few hours after he appeared in footage while heartlessly torturing a dog at a residence in the Northern Governorate. The man was secretly filmed by an unknown individual while on the rooftop of a building. There, he was seen beating a dog that was tied by its neck to a clothesline.

The man was also seen filming the strangling dog while beating it using a stick. The footage was widely shared by animal activists and netizens on local social media pages and groups, in a bid to publicize the man’s face and eventually nab him. A few hours later, the Northern Governorate Police Directorate confirmed that the incident took place in Bani Jamrah village and that the person seen in the video has been arrested and referred to the Public Prosecution.