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21 August 2016

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Summoning of 70 Shiite clerics supported statement of UN experts about persecution of Shia Muslims in Bahrain

The Bahraini German organisation for human rights and democracy welcomes the Statement issued by the UN experts, in which they assured the responsibility of the Bahraini authorities in targeting the Shia Muslims, and exposed their false claims of respecting human rights..

(AhlulBayt News Agency) - The Bahraini German organisation for human rights and democracy welcomes the Statement issued by the UN experts, in which they assured the responsibility of the Bahraini authorities in targeting the Shia Muslims, and exposed their false claims of respecting human rights, all which requires the immediate halt of targeting citizens of the Shia band and grant them their civil and political rights as stated in the local and international covenants, and not stirring up sectarian polarisation.

In this frame a detailed statistic and Videographics showing the number of summoning and other violations of human rights committed by the Bahraini authorities throughout three months from June to August 2016 against the Shia Muslims, and that after revoking the citizenship of Sheikh Isa  Qassim, documenting the summoning of 70 cleric, and apprehending 20 of them, in addition to 9 Shia chanters, and more than 50 citizen and activist, and lastly 7 examples of major violations against the Shia band.

First, summoning 70 Shia clerics until August 18, 2016:

1. Sheikh Hassan Al-Maliki
2. Sheikh Abbas Al-Haiki
3. Sheikh Ali Al-Sadadi
4. Sheikh bashar Al-Aali
5. Sheikh Ali Hmidan / arbitrary apprehension, sentenced on August 18, 2016 for one year in prison for participating in a peaceful assembly in Al-Darraz
6. Sheikh Ali Al-jofiree / arbitrary apprehension, placed in custody for 15 days
7. Sheikh Sadek Al-Afia
8. Sheikh Hassan Ali Radi Abed Al-Rasoul Al-Esbae
9. Sheikh Sadik Al-dorazi
10. Sheikh Hamza Al-Diri
11. Sheikh ali Al-Shoghol
12. Sheikh Ali Rahma
13. Sheikh ali Al-Motawaghi / arbitrary apprehension
14. Sheikh Jasim Al-Motawae
15. Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Ansari
16. Sheikh Mohammad Sankour / detained for one day
17. Sheikh Jasim Al-Khayat / arrested for one day
18. Sheikh Mounir Maatouk / arbitrary apprehension, 15 days in custody
19. Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Safa Al-Setri
20. Al-Sayyid Hashem Al-Bahrani
21. Sheikh Baker Al-Hawaj / head of Al-Tawaeiya organisation
22. Sheikh Mahmoud Al-Aali
23. Sheikh Fadel Al-Zaki / repeated summonings, arbitrary apprehension
24. Sheikh Aziz Al-Khadran / arbitrary detention for two days, then released, then re apprehended and stayed 15 days in custody
25. Al-Sayyid Mohammad Al-Gharifi / arbitrary apprehension, stayed 15 days in custody
26. Al-Sayyid Ali Al-Sayyid Ahmad Al-Dorazi / arbitrary apprehension, stayed 15 days in custody
27. Al-Sayyid Yassin Al-Mousawi / arbitrary apprehension for one day then released, then re apprehended and stayed 15 days in custody
28. Al-Sayyid Majeid Al-Mashaal
29. Sheikh Said Al-Asfour / arbitrary detention for 7 days, then released, then re apprehended and stayed 15 days in custody
30. Sheikh Yassin Al-Jamri / arbitrary apprehension and stayed 15 days in custody
31. Sheikh Abed Al-Hakeim Al-Oradi
32. Al-Sayyid Hashem Al-Bahrani
33. Al-Sayyid Ali Said Sharaf
34. Sheikh Mohammad Jawad Al-Shahabi / arbitrary apprehension from a frisking point
35. Al-Sayyid Mohsen Al-Ghorifi one of the prominent Shia clerics in Bahrain
36. Sheikh Hussien Al-Mahrous / director of Sheikh Issa Kassem’s office
37. Sheikh Mahmoud Al-Ojemi
38. Sheikh Abed Ali Al-Aali
39. Sheikh Issa Al-Moemin / arbitrary apprehension , will be held for court on August 21
40. Mulla Habib Moftah Al-Dorazi / arbitrary apprehension
41. sheikh Imad Al-Shola / arbitrary apprehension and stayed 15 days in custody
42. Al-Sayyid Mahmoud Al-Wadaei
43. Sheikh Ali Naji Al-Hamli
44. Sheikh Akil Al-Ghanemi
45. Sheikh Hussien Sabah Al-Jamri
46. Al-Sayyid Sadik Al-Maliki
47. Sheikh Mahmoud Taheri
48. Sheikh Hassan Al-Aali
49. Sheikh Jaafar Al-Sayigh
50. Sheikh Kazim Darwich
51. Sheikh Hussien Al-Mamari
52. Sheikh Mahdi Al-Karzakani
53. Sheikh Jamil Al-Amer
54. Sheikh Hassan Sabah
55. Sheikh Fouad Al-Moubarak
56. Al-Sayyid Kamel Al-Hashemi
57. Sheikh Hussien Mal Allah
58. Sheikh Majeid Al-Alawi
59. Al-Sayyid Hassan Al-Ghorefi
60. Sheikh Rajaie Abed Al-Amir Al-Barbari
61. Mulla Hani Al-baladi
62. Mulla Abed Al-Rasoul Al-Houjiri
63. Sheikh Maytham Al-Salman / head of religious freedoms unit in Bahrain observatory for human rights, interrogated for more than 12 hours, banned from travel
64. Al-Sayyid Moussa Al-Wadaei
65. Sheikh Ali Al-Tayyar
66. Sheikh Mohammad Mohsen Al-Asfour
67. sheikh Abed Al-Hakim Al-Oradi
68. Sheikh Maytham Al-Khabaz
69. Sheikh Abed Al-Hussien Al-Setri
70. Sheikh Ali Hussien

Second, the apprehension of 20 clerics after summoning them for the assembly of Al-Darraz
1. Al-sayyid Majid Al-Mashaal
2. Al-sayyid Mohammad Hadi Al-Ghorefi
3. Sheikh Mohammad Jawad Al-Shahabi
4. Sheikh Fadel Al-Zaki
5. Sheikh Issa Al-Moemen
6. Sheikh Mounir Al-Maatouk
7. Sheikh Ali Hmidan
8. Sheikh Ali Al-Jofeiry
9. Sheikh Imad Al-shoala
10. Sheikh Ali Naji Al-Hamli
11. Sheikh Abed Al-Aziz Al-Khadran
12. Sheikh Hussien Al-Mahrous
13. Al-sayyid Yassin Al-Mousawi
14. Mulla Hani Al-Beladi
15. Sheikh Ali Al-Tayyar
16. Mulla Al-sayyid Ali Al-sayyid Ahmad
17. Sheikh Ali Al-Motaghawi
18. Mulla Habib Mouftah Al-Dorazi
19. Sheikh Yassin Al-Jamri
20. Sheikh Said Al-Asfour , released on August 14, 2016

Third, summoning 9 Shia chanters and poets
1. Mahdi Sahwan
2. Jaafar Al-kashami
3. Abed Al-jabbar Al-Dorazi
4. Khalil Al Ismail
5. Jaafar Al-Dorazi
6. Mohamad Jaber
7. Nizar Al-Dorazi
8. Abdallah Al-bouri
9.Ali Merza Aman

Fourth, summoning over than 50 Shia activists throughout June-August 2016
1. Dr. Taha Al-Dorazi
2. Khalil Marzouk assistant general secretary of Al-Wefaq organisation
3. Abed Al-Jaleel Khalil head of Al-Wefaq’s parliamentary group
4. Jamsheir Fayrouz
5. Haji Ali Al-Naseif
6. Adel Al-Marzouk
7. Abed Al-nabi Al-Hawaj
8. Yasser nasser, TV director
9. Al-Sayyid Hamid Sayyid Adnan
10. Youssif Al-dehi
11. Abed Al-Jaleel Mohammad Abeid
12. Father of murdered child Yassin Al-Asfour ( deceased after suffocating from the poisonous gases which the security forces shot on the Shia villages)
13. Father of murdered child Al-Sayyid Hashem Said (shot twice by tear gas, one on the neck and the other on the chest leading to his death)
14. Father of murdered child Ali Al-Sheikh ( shot by tear gas in his neck leading to his death)
15. Kobra Hamidi, wife of the murdered Abed Al-Kareem Fakhrawi (killed under torture in detention)

Fifth, examples of major violations committed against the Shia band
1. Revoking the citizenship of the head Shia cleric Issa Ahmad kassim
2. Suspending Al-Wefaq national organisation and dissolving it later (largest political group in Bahrain)
3. Dissolving Islamic Tawaiya organisation
4. Banning the chief of the largest congregational prayer Sheikh Mohammad Al-Sankour from performing the prayer
5. Banning the chief of the largest congregational prayer in Bahrain and his substitute from performing the prayer
6. Banning the celebration of Islamic Holidays in Al-Darraz
7. Continuing in withholding the passport of Sheikh Maytham Al-Salman and banning him from travel

Some of those who were summoned mentioned to the Bahraini German organisation that officer Turki Al-Majed handled the investigation with them and many other clerics, and he used to force them into signing a pledge not to participate in the open assembly in Al-Darraz, and written on that pledge is the name of the Shia band leader Sheikh Issa Kassem in an undermining way “so-called Isa Qassim” instead of “Sheikh Isa Qassim”, and that clarifies the extent of excessiveness in insulting the Shia band symbols.




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