Bahrain’s Shia cleric released following nearly one month in detention

AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Bahraini Shiite cleric Sayed Majeed Al Meshaal was released on Wednesday after spending nearly one month in detention.

The cleric was summoned for questioning and detained at the start of February for allegedly ‘inciting hatred against the regime’.

That arrest came a mere 48 hours after Sayed Al Meshaal had served a two-and-a-half year prison term over a separate set of charges.

In July 2016, he was jailed for participating in a round-the-clock vigil around the home of Bahrain’s highest religious authority, Sheikh Isa Qassim.

Sayed Al Meshaal once chaired the now-dissolved Islamic Scholars Council, which was one of Bahrain’s leading Shiite religious institutions.

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