Kill kill and Jawad Fairooz were accused of "propagation of malicious lies in an attempt to overthrow the Government", an official of the authority in matters of information told CNN.
Both men pleaded innocent and will remain in custody until their next hearing, said the official, Sheik Abdul-Aziz bin Mubarak. He said that his lawyers have been given more time to prepare their cases.
Both men were captured on 2 may, members of the family, he said.
The trials come once the Gulf Kingdom small, strategically important was swept by protests this year as part of demonstrations by Arab spring.
The trial began on Sunday without prior notice, according to a member of the family kill asked not be named for security reasons.
Attorney of Fairooz only found out the charges when he appeared in court on Sunday, said Jamsheer Fairooz of brother of the accused.
Jawad Fairooz said that it was well and expected to be in good physical condition but had "10 years - his beard and hair have both gone white, said his brother.
Kill, 35, was taken from his car by armed men in masks, on May 2, according to a family member. He represented the largest constituency in Bahrain, with approximately 16,000 people.
Elected to the lower House of Parliament in October 2010, kill resigned along with other legislators of Wefaq this year to protest the Suppression of the Government against the demonstrators. Wefaq is a Shiite party, the predominant religion in the Kingdom, whose rulers are Sunni.
A human rights activist Bahrain Nabeel Rajab said that the tests are "not (of) an international standard", saying that the defendants had "(not only) without access to counsel, but even their families (were) not reported that they were being taken to court."
Meanwhile, the poet Ayat al - Qormozi, 20, was found guilty of mounting in the Rotunda of Pearl, the epicentre of the anti-Government demonstrations in the Kingdom this year. Additional titles include Bahrain and the King.
The society of Bahrain youth for human rights said that he read a Government policy to criticize poem at the roundabout.
Mubarak, the Government official, said Bahrain had freedom of expression, but that there are limits.
"Freedom of expression in this country has its limits and cannot comment on the leadership and can not be called for the overthrow of the Government," he said.
His poem, said, "caused incitement and hatred of his Majesty the King and the Prime Minister" with lines like "we are people who kills the humiliation" and "kill the misery".
Amnesty International has called the charges "unfair" in a statement after the sentence.
"By locking a poet simply for expressing their views in public, the authorities of Bahrain are demonstrating the freedom of expression and Assembly brutally refuses to ordinary Bahrain," said Malcolm Smart, Director of Amnesty International Middle and North Africa.
Al - Qormozi had been arrested since March 30, when his father took the security forces to threats to the lives of their children, said a member of the family.
She claims that she received electric shocks to his face and was hit with a hose in detention, according to the relative, who asked not be named for security reasons.
His mother and his father were only allowed relatives in court, said the relative, adding that a lawyer present with her.
Bahrain security forces were to his home around midnight, a few days before she was arrested, but did not say from home, the relative.
Security forces broke up the things in the House and said that the family would return the next day for her. They returned the next night, but she was still in hiding, said the relative.
The family member said that the security forces, took two of the four brothers of the poet then threatened with guns in their faces. The father, fearing for the lives of his family, led to security forces to it. The family was assured that she would not be harmed, said the Member of the family.
The Government of Bahrain refused to comment on the details of the case-by-the - Qormozi, but said: "all detention centres in conformity with conditions established international regulations on rights humans and the detainees are treated as innocent until that demonstrate his guilt".
Thousands of Bahrain were protesting his Government Saturday in a rally organized by the Party of Wefaq.
Demonstrators pro-reform, unafraid to pounded the streets with their faces uncovered, said a journalist in the place which was not identified for security reasons.
Rajab, the human rights activist, puts the participation in "not less than 10,000", while the police put at 4,000, the news agency said.
Rajab said the March unfolded peacefully, with no current security force.
It was the second such protest since the Government last week lifted emergency laws were imposed in mid March, thus allowing a repression against political leaders and journalists.
Bahrain ruling Royal family - Sunnis in a nation's Shiite majority, accused the protesters of being motivated by sectarian differences and supported by Iran.
Ali Salman, the Secretary-general of the Wefaq, said that the huge crowds that supports the offer of the Government's dialogue, but said that it could not support it fully unless the conditions of those talks were clear.
Prince of Bahrain first Minister Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa promised the cooperation of the Government "to reach a national consensus in order to ensure a better future for the Kingdom", said the State Bahrain News Agency.
Prince Salman, that he met with officials of United States in Washington on Wednesday, he thanked President Barack Obama for their support of a national dialogue in Bahrain.
Bahrain is home to the fifth fleet of the Navy of United States and the United States interested in instability in the State of the island in the Persian Gulf.Jenifer Fenton CNN contributed to this report.
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