Al Wefaq National Islamic Society in Bahrain said the Bahraini regime is expropriating rights and freedoms to belief and religion by closing down the largest religious association in Bahrain.
Heavily armed forces locked the headquarters of the Islamic Council of Scholars that is engaged with religious education and awareness in society. The regime has practically sent a message that the doors to dialogue and a political solution to the 3-year-long crisis have been closed.
Locking the Islamic Council of Scholars, which is the largest religious establishment for Shiites in Bahrain, is a crime against the homeland and the unity of its people. This behaviour entrenches hatred and sectarianism.
Such sectarian practices demonstrate the regime’s involvement in sectarian persecution against Shiite Muslims in Bahrain. The regime is depriving Shiites from the right to form religious associations, which is a universally recognized right.
The regime in Bahrain is running away from the democratic demands of the majority of its people and is exacerbating the crisis by perpetrating human rights violations in attempt to cover and shutdown these demands.
Global friends to Bahrain, and the international community, are all called on to declare their refusal of the regime’s rising sectarian practices, so as not be considered to accept these measures.
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