Manama: A Bahraini court on Sunday jailed 16 Shiites for life and two others 10 years for an attack that wounded two policemen in a village near Manama, a judicial source said.
Authorities in the kingdom, who have been facing a Shiite-led protests, increased last year the penalties for those convicted of violence, introducing the death penalty or life sentences in certain cases.
Those sentenced Sunday were charged with “possessing molotov cocktails and using them to attack police” in the Shiite village of Athari earlier this month, the source said.
They were also accused of “burning down a vehicle belonging to the interior ministry” and “taking part in an unauthorised protest.”
