A Bahraini court sentenced three men to up to five years in prison for belonging to and funding a "terrorist" group abroad, a Bahraini lawyer said on Thursday. In Bahrain, the phrase "a terrorist group abroad" is a reference to al Quaeda.
The court imposed a one year prison sentence on a Bahraini man who had already been in detention for eight months after being stopped at the airport, Abdullah Hashem, the defence lawyer, told AFP.
The two other suspects, a Bahraini and a Syrian, were sentenced to five years in absentia, Hashem said. The Bahraini man in the dock, who was arrested on his way to India, was accused of having links to and funding a "terrorist" group abroad that planned attacks against foreign countries.