Bahrain court upholds death for 2 over police killing

Dubai - The two are part of a group of 12 people tried over a bomb attack in Dair village that killed a policeman.

Bahrain's top court on Monday upheld the death sentences of two men convicted of planting a bomb that killed a police officer last year, the prosecution and lawyers said.
The two are part of a group of 12 people tried over a February 14, 2014 bomb attack in Dair village that killed policeman Abdulwahid Sayid Mohammed Faqeer and wounded several others, the prosecution said in a statement.
"Two of the defendants were found guilty of planting and detonating the explosive device, with 10 others convicted of obtaining and manufacturing explosive devices with the intent to use them in terrorist attacks," said the statement.
The court "upheld the Higher Criminal Court's and the Court of Appeal's decisions to sentence two of the individuals to death, in light of the calculated and carefully planned manner in which Abdulwahid Sayid Mohammed Faqeer was murdered," advocate-general Nayif Yousif said in the statement.
It also upheld the prison sentences handed down to the others, he added.
Six of the defendants, including those facing execution, are in custody, while the other six remain at large, according to lawyers, who charged that confessions had been obtained under duress.

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