Bahrain upholds sentences for 5 convicted of spying for Iran

A Bahraini appeals court has upheld life prison sentences against five Shiites convicted of spying for Iran as well as their citizenships being revoked, a judicial source tells AFP.

A statement by the prosecution says the court rejected the appeal by the five defendants.

The men were convicted in November of “spying for and seeking with Iran and its agents to carry out hostile acts against the kingdom,” a judicial sources said at the time.

They were found guilty of working with Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard to carry out attacks in Bahrain against public facilities and banks.

Two of them had received training in Iran on “the manufacture and use of explosives and firearms in preparation for carrying out these hostile attacks,” according to the charges.

— AFP