Bahrain's criminal court on Wednesday (January 31st) sentenced two members of a terror cell to death and 19 others to life imprisonment, AFP reported.
It also sentenced 17 cell members to 15 years in jail, nine to 10 years, 11 to five years, and acquitted two defendants, the Bahrain News Agency reported.
The defendants were convicted of forming a "terror" cell that carried out a number of attacks, killing at least two policemen and wounding several others, and of smuggling weapons by boat.
They were also convicted of attacking a prison and helping some prisoners to flee, of traveling to Iraq and Iran for military training and engaging in a gun-battle with police.
Large quantities of weapons, including grenades and light machine guns were seized from the group, according to the ruling.
The court revoked the citizenship of 47 of the convicts. Thirty-six cell members are already in jail, while the rest were sentenced in absentia, including 12 defendants living in Iran and Iraq and one in Germany, a judicial source said.
