Bahrain executes three men over police killings
January 15, 2017
Trio convicted of carrying out a 2014 deadly attack on police executed by firing squad, state news agency reports.
The UAE helped put down a month of protests by Bahrain’s Shia majority in March 2011 [File: Hasan Jamali/AP]
Bahrain has executed three men found guilty of killing three policemen, including an Emirati officer, prosecuters in the island kingdom said.
The three faced the firing squad on Sunday, a week after a court upheld their death sentences over a bomb attack in March 2014, the prosecution said in a statement carried by the official BNA state news agency.
The executions came a day after demonstrations broke out across Shia villages following rumours that the authorities were going to execute the three men.
They are the first in six years in the Gulf kingdom, according to London-based human rights group, Reprieve, which had warned on Saturday against the move.
