Retrial request referred to Minister of Justice

Manama, Mar. 28 (BNA): Two terror suspects will undergo a retrial in the event that the Court of Cassation approves their request for a retrial, Attorney General Dr. Ali bin Fadhul Al Buainain, said. The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) received a memorandum regarding its investigations in the complaints lodged by both convicts Hussain Ali Moussa and Mohammed Ramadan Essa who were sentenced to death. They were incriminated for committing the crime of murdering a policeman and attempted murdering of other policemen by detonating a terrorist explosion. The SIU concluded to suggesting to reconsider the death sentence after the investigations found new papers that had not been known at the time of their trial and issuance of the sentence, according to Al Buainain. The documents were in the form of medical reports from the Interior Ministry after examining the convict Hussain Ali Moussa, which had not been lodged previously at the earlier court when it issued its sentence nor lodged at the Court of Cassation, he added. He pointed out that although the court ruling included other evidences than their verbal statements; and, as the convict Hussain Ali Moussa was examined by a forensic doctor on the occasion of the case, no injuries were found that could support his complaint apart from wrist bruises caused by his steel handcuffs. However, convict Mohammed Ramadan Essa actually did not confess to committing the murder nor being an accomplice in causing the explosion. However, reliant upon the SIU’s memorandum regarding the medical reports from the Ministry of Interior which had not been lodged previously. And pursuant to the presentation by the Acting Head of the SIU regarding the whereabouts and results uncovered by the SIU investigations, and in compliance with justice, the matter has been referred to the Minister of Justice to consider the SIU’s suggestion to reconsider the sentence and to lodge this request at the Court of Cassation.