By Ali Tarif. The High Criminal Court yesterday handed down tough sentences to seven members of a terror cell accused of bombing an oil pipeline in Buri. The court sentenced the first, second, third, fourth and fifth defendants to life in prison and fined them BD 200,000 each. It also sentence
The High Criminal Court yesterday handed down tough sentences to seven members of a terror cell accused of bombing an oil pipeline in Buri.
The court sentenced the first, second, third, fourth and fifth defendants to life in prison and fined them BD 200,000 each. It also sentenced the sixth defendant to ten years in jail and the seventh defendant to five years along with a fine of BD 100,000 each. Moreover, the court decided to revoke the nationality of all the defendants except the seventh suspect.
The defendants were held guilty of establishing and joining a terrorist group, handling, possession and using explosives and detonation of a terrorist blast, receiving training on the use of weapons and explosives to commit terrorist crimes and financing the terrorist group.
The court ordered the first, third, fourth, fifth and sixth defendants to jointly pay the sum of BD 64,577.041 to compensate for the damages caused by bombing the oil pipeline.
