The charges brought against Al-Sitri are still unknown, however, the authorities decided to arrest him until presenting him to the Public Prosecution.
The security authorities have launched a vast campaign against Shiite clerics, summoned and arrested dozens of them, since the citizenship revocation of the Shiite majority spiritual leader, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim on June 20, 2016.
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20 June 2017 - 13:12
News ID: 837654
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - The Bahraini security authorities arrested on Monday (June 19, 2017) Shiite cleric Sheikh Hussein, son of Sheikh Ali Al-Sitri, after interrogating him in Hamad Town police station at Roundabout 17.