Man gets life term for terror funding

The High Criminal Court has sentenced a man, who was tried in absentia, to life in prison, for funding terrorist activities in the Kingdom.

The court also ordered him to pay a fine of BD500,000. Another man involved in this case was given a 10-year jail term and a fine of BD100,000.

Court files say the suspects acted as funders of terrorist activities in Kingdom during the period from 2015-2018 in their capacity as members of Al Wafa mainstream, a group designated as a terrorist organisation.

Prosecutors told the court that the duo funded rioters to carry out hooliganism and unpermitted demonstrations in the Kingdom. The first defendant collected the money from anti-Bahrain organisations abroad and transferred it to Bahrain.

The second defendant’s distributed the funds to rioters and terrorists to cover their costs.