Intelligence case trial adjourned

Manama, Feb. 19 (BNA): The High Criminal Court has completed hearing the case of Ali Salman Ali Ahmed, Hassan Ali Jumaa Sultan and Ali Mehdi Ali Al Aswad who are accused of exchanging intelligence information with Qatar, and decided to adjourn it to March 1, Advocate General Osama Al Oufi said today. The Public Prosecution referred them to the court for trial on charges of exchanging intelligence information with a foreign country to carry out hostile acts against the Kingdom of Bahrain, undermine its political and economic status as well as its national interest to overthrow the political system. The suspects were also charged with the divulging of defence secrets to a foreign country, accepting money from a foreign country in consideration for providing it with military secrets and information about the internal situation of the country, spreading tendentious rumours and fallacies abroad to weaken the financial confidence in the Kingdom and undermine its prestige. On Monday, the court heard the case in an open session according to the law. The first suspect attended the trial accompanied by his lawyers. The court decided to adjourn the case to present the recorded telephone conversation in which the suspect was a party, and implement the court’s decision of assigning a member of the court to hear the statement of a witness who is under protection measures.