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• Sentence20 November 2025🇧🇭 Bahrain

  Bahrain upholds life for a 350 kg hashish network

  The High Criminal Court in November 2025 rejected a challenge to a life sentence for a man convicted in a network that brought about 350 kg of hashish into Bahrain by sea between 2021 and 2023. Six other defendants, including a woman, were named in the case; the court treated the challenge to an in-absentia judgment as having no legal basis.

• Sentence24 January 2026🇧🇭 Bahrain

  Bahrain appeal court cuts a cannabis-seed sentence to ten years

  An appeal court reduced a man’s sentence from fifteen years to ten and retained a 5,000-dinar fine and confiscation in a cannabis-seed and multiple-drug case, The Daily Tribune reported.[@1] Prosecutors said he held cannabis seeds for trafficking and hashish and pregabalin for personal use; investigators described a home-growing operation.[@1] Laboratory tests identified viable cannabis seeds…

• Sentence19 July 2022🇧🇭 Bahrain

  Bahrain sentences a hashish smuggler to death over 50 kg from Iran

  The High Criminal Court sentenced a Bahraini man to death on 19 July 2022 for importing and possessing 50 kg of hashish with intent to distribute; prosecutors said the shipment came from Iran and the intelligence dated from March. On appeal the sentence became life imprisonment, and the Court of Cassation upheld the life term on 24 July 2023.

• Sentence19 January 2019🇧🇭 Bahrain

  Bahrain jails a home cannabis grower and acquits him of selling

  A 56-year-old former flight attendant received three years in prison and a 1,000-dinar fine after convictions involving growing cannabis at home and unlawful possession of a weapon and ammunition, The Daily Tribune reported.[@1] Police had raided his home after a tip-off; he said he grew for himself and learned online.[@1] The court acquitted him of selling because the evidence was…