AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Bahrain’s Al-Wefaq believes that the country’s National Democratic Action Society (Waad) and its members will remain a feature of Bahraini society despite the group’s dissolution.
On Monday, Manama’s top court upheld a May 2017 ruling that dissolved Waad over allegations that it was “advocating and inciting terrorism”.
Al-Wefaq attributed the decision to a “mentality of abolition and marginalization” that was helping “to deepen tyranny” in the country.
According to Al-Wefaq, the last eight years have seen Manama “abolish most civil society institutions, disrupt the human rights community, sabotage and split the unions … shut down media space and attack any space that addressed corruption or tyranny.”
Al-Wefaq had its own dissolution upheld in February 2018. The opposition movement was banned over a long list of allegations including the supposed “harboring of terrorism”.
In the months that followed, Manama also barred all members of the opposition from holding political office and then staged parliamentary elections.
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source : Lualua TV
Tuesday
22 January 2019
12:10:44 PM
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Bahrain’s Al-Wefaq believes that the country’s National Democratic Action Society (Waad) and its members will remain a feature of Bahraini society despite the group’s dissolution.