Manama: A Bahrain court jailed four people for life on Thursday after convicting them of detonating a bomb targeting police, which wounded an Asian man, a judicial source said.
The four men — two of whom were tried in absentia — were charged with “attempting to murder a man [the Asian worker] and policemen by placing a roadside bomb between large rocks in the village of Dair,” the source said.
The attack in the village near the capital, in which the worker’s arm was wounded, took place on March 17.
On Wednesday, four Shiites were jailed for 15 years each after being convicted of detonating a bomb that also wounded an Asian worker in Manama,
And on Monday, 37 others were jailed for up to 15 years after being convicted of “terrorist crimes”.
A court on Sunday also handed jail terms of up to 15 years to 50 activists, including a prominent Shiite Iraqi cleric, for forming a clandestine opposition group.
