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RESUME OF TIQIi PROCEEDINGS against five members of the
"COMMITTEE OF NATIONAL UNION11.

ABDEL RAHMAN DAKR, Secretary,
ABDEL AZIZ SHAMLAil. Acting Secretary,
ABDU ALT ALIWAT. Representative of
Country Districts,
IBRAHIM MOHAMMED FAKHROO, Treasurer T
and IBRAHIM BIN MUSA T Representative In
the town of Hedd.
BEFORE A SPECIAL TRIBUNAL
SULMAN K. C. M. G.. K.C.I.E.
:
CONSISTING OF: SUE. SHAIKH ABDULLA BIN ISA, C.I.E. >
SHAIKH DAIJ BIri HAMEO, -O.B.E.,
and SHAIKH ALI BIN AHMED.

1. The Tribunal sat in a room above the Police Station at
Budeya on 22nd and 23rd December 1956. The Tribunal was ordered
to sit at Budeya because j.t was considered undesirable for reasons
qf public order for the proceedings to be heard in the Manama Court,
The public were admitted to the proceedings and each day some 12-15
i
persons from Budeya were present during the proceedings, this being
the maximum number,of persons who could be accommodated in the room. ;i!

2. The accused wore immediately informed that the allegations :
against them were that they, as members of the Committee of National
i'i
Union, had consrplred together to procure by unlawful moans, tho i
assassination of the lawful Ruler, his Adviser and members of the
Ruler?s family, the destruction of the Palace ) tho Airport and

other buildings, the overthrow of the lawful government and the
deprivation of the Ruler's lawful authority. Further that, when
the Committee was allowed by the Government to qrganize a demons­ ;•
tration on certain conditions, they deliberately disobeyed the
orders of the Government' which disobedience resulted in serious
disturbances Including violence, arson and great damage to the towns
of Ma.iama and Muharraq.
3. Abdul Rahman Baler spoke on his own behalf and on behalf

of tho other accused * Ho stated that any one of the allegations,
if proved, was enough to take them all to tho gallows and if tho

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