AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Bahrainis are continuing to take to the streets in protest over their country’s upcoming parliamentary and municipal elections.
The vote, scheduled for Saturday, will take place without the participation of Bahrain’s opposition movements, which have all been barred from the political process.
On Monday evening, residents of Al Musalla marched through the streets of the northern village holding up signs that called for the boycott of the polls and the signing of the “popular petition”.
The petition is due to be officially unveiled in the coming days and is expected to urge international support for the Bahraini people in their efforts to resolve the political turmoil.
Meanwhile in another act of protest, Diraz residents draped walls in their village with posters of Bahrain’s jailed opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman.
Sheikh Salman was sentenced to life imprisonment earlier this month after having an acquittal on espionage charges overturned by a Manama court.
Western lawmakers have described the latest verdict against the opposition leader as “unlawful” and pointed to his case as further proof of Manama’s continuing crackdown on political dissent.
The lawmakers from the EU, UK, Ireland and the US have already dismissed the validity of the elections, warning the Bahraini monarch that the outcome would not be internationally recognized.
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source : Lualua TV
Tuesday
20 November 2018
1:29:21 PM
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Bahrainis are continuing to take to the streets in protest over their country’s upcoming parliamentary and municipal elections.