- The UAE officer was working in Bahrain within the Gulf Waves Force.
Reuters/Riyadh
Bahraini authorities on Sunday executed three men convicted of killing an Emirati police officer and two Bahraini policemen in a 2014 bomb attack, the public prosecutor said, in the first death sentences to be carried out since 2008.
The executions came less than a week after the country's highest court, the Court of Cassation, confirmed the death sentences originally imposed in 2015 against Abbas Al Samea, Sami Mushaima and Ali Al Singace.
Scores of men and women took to the streets after the families of the three were summoned to meet them in prison, a measure that usually precedes the implementation of death sentences, witnesses said."No, no to execution," the protesters chanted.
The high court on Monday upheld the death sentences against the trio convicted in a bomb attack in March 2014, which killed three policemen, including the officer from the United Arab Emirates.
The UAE officer was working in Bahrain within the Gulf Waves Force under the joint GCC security cooperation agreement.
Seven other defendants received life terms.
Bahraini authorities on Sunday executed three men convicted of killing an Emirati police officer and two Bahraini policemen in a 2014 bomb attack, the public prosecutor said, in the first death sentences to be carried out since 2008.
The executions came less than a week after the country's highest court, the Court of Cassation, confirmed the death sentences originally imposed in 2015 against Abbas Al Samea, Sami Mushaima and Ali Al Singace.
Scores of men and women took to the streets after the families of the three were summoned to meet them in prison, a measure that usually precedes the implementation of death sentences, witnesses said."No, no to execution," the protesters chanted.
The high court on Monday upheld the death sentences against the trio convicted in a bomb attack in March 2014, which killed three policemen, including the officer from the United Arab Emirates.
The UAE officer was working in Bahrain within the Gulf Waves Force under the joint GCC security cooperation agreement.
Seven other defendants received life terms.
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