(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - On the following of demanding the death sentence for the top Shiite cleric, Sheikh Nimr Baqir Al-Nimr by Saudi Attorney General, head of the religious seminaries in Iran, Ayatollah Seyyed Hashem Husseini Bushehri, in an interview with ABNA said: Certainly the Saudi government's unfair treatment against the prominent scholar will face with serious opposition of Muslims around the world.
The senior cleric affirmed: The response to the efforts of the religious scholars and political activists demanding the rights of the people should not be execution, but logically speaking should be answered with logic, and the response of the logic answering is not execution.
The member of the Qom Seminary Teachers Society emphasized that all those in favor of freedom, freedom of speech and human rights severely condemn Saudi authorities unfair actions against Sheikh Nimr Baqir Al-Nimr.
Demanding execution of Sheikh al-Nimr
Prominent Shia Cleric “Hujjatul-Islam Sheikh Nimr Baqir Al-Nimr” last week, 8 months after his illegal detention, was present in Special Criminal Court to investigate terrorism cases in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.
According to ABNA, the representative of the Attorney General indicted several charges against Sheikh Nimr Baqir Al-Nimr, most notably are "incentive in Qatif," "draw foreign intervention and support of the uprising in Bahrain," and asked the court to sentence 55-year Al-Nimr to death for Muharibah.
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6 April 2013 - 08:26
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Head of the religious seminaries in Iran emphasized that all those in favor of freedom, freedom of speech and human rights severely condemn Saudi authorities unfair actions against Sheikh Nimr Baqir Al-Nimr.
