The Supreme Judicial Council, chaired by the King, appoints the members of the Constitutional Court.
[2] To secure renewal of these positions, judges may be prone to consider it necessary to take decisions not unfavourable to the wishes or interests of the Government.
[7] The National Safety Court (Arabic: محكمة السلامة الوطنية) is a special military court that was set up in March 2011 to try protesters, opposition leaders, rights activists, and people who supported or are perceived as supporting the Bahraini uprising.
The cases are prosecuted by the military public prosecutor Colonel Yousef Rashid Flaifel.
However he backtracked on August 18 issuing a decree which makes it clear that the new measures do not apply to all arrested protesters.