A Bahraini court on Monday upheld death sentences against three people convicted of killing police including an Emirati officer in a bomb attack, a judicial source said.
The decision by Bahrain’s Court of Cassation ends the trial of members of the group behind the March 2014 attack in a village near Manama, for which seven others had received life sentences.
The Emirati officer was part of the Saudi-led Gulf force which rolled into Bahrain in March 2011 to boost Bahraini security forces in quelling a month-long protest dominated by island’s Shiite majority.
Bahraini police help an injured comrade after a bomb exploded during clashes between protesters and security forces in the village of Daih, west of the capital Manama, on March 3, 2014 ©Mohammed Al-Shaikh (AFP/File)
Hundreds of Shiites have been arrested and put on trial since the crackdown on the protests that took their cue from Arab Spring uprisings and called for a constitutional monarchy with an elected prime minister in the Sunni-ruled Gulf state.
Bahrain is a strategic ally of Washington and home the US Navy Fifth Fleet.
