Hawzah News Agency (Manama, Bahrain) - Bahrain's top court of appeal has reversed a decision to revoke the citizenship of 92 jailed Shia nationals who have been convicted of allegedly forming a "terrorist group," but has upheld their original prison terms.

On Sunday, the Court of Cassation, Bahrain’s highest court, "overturned the decision to strip the 92 people of their citizenship," AFP quoted an unnamed judicial source as saying.

In April, Bahrain's High Criminal Court sentenced 138 people to prison terms of various lengths and stripped them of their Bahraini citizenship over the charges of purportedly forming a "terror cell."

Back then, the court sentenced 69 defendants to life imprisonment, 39 to 10 years, 23 to seven years, one to five years, and six to three years.

The Bahraini opposition lambasted the verdict at the time, and Amnesty International decried it as a "mockery of justice" and an instance of "mass arbitrary denaturalization."

The 92 defendants who regained their citizenship on Sunday were among the 138 individuals, and according to the source, only the decision on revoking their citizenship has been overturned "but their prison terms remain the same."

The source further said that 96 of the defendants were also fined 100,000 Bahraini dinars (265,000 dollars) each, adding that the Court of Cassation would issue a final verdict. But the timing of that decision was not clear.