Fifteen years each for smuggling about 7 kg of hashish at the airport
Bahrain’s First High Criminal Court sentenced two Asian women to fifteen years and BD10,000 fines each after customs at Bahrain International Airport found about seven kilograms of marijuana in their luggage; a third woman was exempted after helping identify another suspect.
🇧🇭 Bahrain International Airport, Manama · Bahrain
Bahrain’s First High Criminal Court jailed two Asian women for fifteen years
each and fined them BD10,000 apiece after convicting them of smuggling about
seven kilograms of cannabis resin through Bahrain International Airport.[1][2]Customs officers scanning their two suitcases saw high-density images, searched
the bags after both women denied carrying prohibited items, and found the drugs.[1][2]
The women told anti-narcotics investigators they had agreed with an organizer to
collect the suitcases in an Asian country and deliver them in Bahrain in
exchange for a paid holiday.[1][2]The court ordered all defendants deported
after they serve their sentences and confiscated the seized material.[1][2]A
third woman was exempted from punishment after she helped police identify another
suspect in the network.[1][2]
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UrduPointurdupoint.comBahraini Court Sentences Two Asians To 15 Years For Smuggling 7kg Of Hashish
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Coordinates use a Muharraq reference near the airport; the coordinate check flags the airport point as outside simplified land polygons.
Akhbar Al Khaleej calls the drug marijuana; UrduPoint calls it hashish; the opened accounts do not give a laboratory breakdown.
The sting that caught a third suspect involved additional cannabis on a motorcycle and at a home; those quantities are part of the same case but not split in the English summary used here.
UrduPoint published on 15 October while Akhbar Al Khaleej dated the verdict coverage to 13 October 2026.
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