The 20, all males, had been accused of “intentionally attempting to kill policemen in the town of Sitra… using petrol bombs” in mid-February last year, said attorney general Mhanna Al Shayji.
Two policemen were wounded in the attack in which a security forces vehicle was burnt, he said in a statement. The main opposition bloc Al Wefaq said that the 20, among them five children, were “tortured” during their interrogation and that confessions had been “extracted under duress.”
