A court in Bahrain has sentenced nine people to life imprisonment and two others to three years in jail for collaborating with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in what authorities described as hostile, and an act of terrorism against the country.
Bahrains’s state media said, these people were involved in gathering information on sensitive sites and facilitating related financial transfers. Bahrain’s interior ministry had said on 9th of this month that it arrested 41 people allegedly linked to the IRGC.
The court also sentenced two other defendants to three years in prison in two separate cases involving accusations of spying for the IRGC to carry out hostile and terrorist acts against Bahrain.
Prosecutors said the cases involved surveillance of sensitive sites, photographing facilities and passing information to the IRGC.
They also alleged that money transfers using Iranian and Bahraini bank accounts and cryptocurrency were used to finance the activities. Bahrain said the cases were heard over several sessions with defense lawyers present before the court issued its rulings.