Offenders could face up to 10 years in prison and fines of as much as BD1 million under a proposed law seeking to regulate the use of the human genome in Bahrain, with particularly severe penalties targeting human cloning, unauthorised genetic modification and research that threatens human health or the environment.
The draft legislation, submitted by five Shura Council members led by services committee chairwoman Dr Jameela Al Salman, also proposes imprisonment and fines of up to BD500,000 for violations involving prohibited genomic modification and gene therapy procedures.
