Robbers jailed for $1.2m Rolex heistFour of the cross-dressing Rolex robbers who helped steal $1.2 million worth of watches from a Bahrain shop have been jailed by a court in Kosovo. The eastern European men broke into a Rolex shop in City Centre Bahrain after it had closed on S More… |
Drug smugglers jailed for life in BahrainThree Bahrainis have been jailed for life for smuggling 110kg of hashish worth millions of dinars into the country. The sailors were arrested after they retrieved the drugs from the seabed on January 3 last year, said a report in More… |
Bahrain investigators working to help jailed expatsInvestigators are working with foreign embassies to help resolve cases of expatriates who have completed their jail terms but are still detained for legal reasons. The Interior Ministry's Ombudsman Office h More… |
Pakistan trio jailed for spot-fixingPakistan cricketers Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir were jailed on Thursday for their roles in a spot-fixing scandal which the judge said had damaged the integrity of a game renowned for its fairness. Former captain Butt was s More… |
12 more jailed over Oman protestsAn Omani court jailed 12 protesters from the coastal city of Sohar for up to three and a half years, a local paper said on Wednesday, bringing the total number of people sentenced for taking part in the unrest to 80. The usually-tranquil&n More… |
Jailed Iranian reporter on hunger strikeA US-Iranian reporter jailed by Tehran for espionage has gone on hunger strike and says she will not stop until she is released, her father said on Saturday. Reza Saberi said his daughter Roxana, 31, had called from prison to say she was o More… |