The Court declared them innocent in relation to a report by a medical examiner that highlighted that the policeman died when his head hit the ground while trying to escape from a police vehicle that was attacked by the suspects.

The medical report contradicts the Public Prosecution’s charges that the victim was fatally attacked by the suspects. “The verdict makes us more confident in the neutrality of our judiciary system as it only focused on evidence,” activists and President of Bahrain Transparency Society, Abdulnabi Al Ekri, told Khaleej Times on Tuesday. “The move might bring back peace to Bahrain. We want to leave behind all violence that swept Bahrain in the last months by giving a new chance for those innocent people.”

The suspects along with others accused of murdering a Pakistani man last year and awaiting their final hearing next month, were excluded from a royal pardon that covered 178 convicts and suspects of security crimes, including leading opposition figures Hasan Mushama and Mohammed Mugdad who were accused of masterminding the foiled terror plot during the National Day in December. — shamada@khaleejtimes.ae