(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The judicial commission would review the verdicts "in terms of applying international principles of fair trials, including the right to have a lawyer and proof verification," The official news agency BNA quoted Sheikh Khalifa bin Rashid Al-Khalifa, the deputy head of Bahrain's Supreme Judicial Council, as saying in a statement on Monday.
Military courts last year issued at least five death sentences and sentenced some opposition leaders to life terms for organizing protests against the rule of Al- Khalifa.
The sentences were issued by the National Safety Court, established by King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa in mid-March under a three-month “state of national safety” to clamp down on pro-democracy protesters.
The Monday’s statement, also said that judges from civilian courts would be part of a body reviewing verdicts issued by the military tribunal that were not subject to appeal.
Rulings subject to review would include convictions for statements that did not amount to incitement to violence, it said.
The panel is being set up according to the recommendations of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI), which in November urged the government to revise verdicts handed down to protesters in a military tribunal.
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