(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - A special security court in Bahrain postponed Wednesday the appeal hearing of four Shiites sentenced to death and three others jailed for life claimed for killing two policemen.
"The Appeal National Safety Court postponed the case of murdering two policemen Kashif Ahmed Manzur and Mohammed Farouk Abdulsamad to 22nd of May to issue its final verdict," said an English-language statement on state news agency BNA.
The national safety court of first instance had issued its verdict on April 28 drawing a condemnation from Amnesty International which urged Bahrain to block the executions.
The court was set up under the state of national safety, a lower level of emergency law, was declared by King Hamad in mid-March, a day before an all-out crackdown on protester demanding political reforms.
On Tuesday, BNA reported the same court had sentenced a woman, Fadila Mubarak Ahmed, to four years in prison for "assaulting a police officer and participating in anti-government demonstrations."
Meanwhile, Mohammed Qassem Hussein was sentenced to two years in prison followed by expulsion from the country after he "took to the streets and participated in anti-government protests" it said.
Six other defendants were sentenced to terms raging between one and four years in prison.
According to sources 32 people were martyred during the month-long unrest, most of them demonstrators.
Last month, authorities said that 405 of 850 detainees have been referred to national safety courts, while 312 have been released.
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