AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Bahrain’s opposition Al-Wefaq movement sounded the alarm over the “unprecedented rise” of religious persecution in the Persian Gulf kingdom.
The group alleged in a statement on Tuesday that religious persecution has become a feature in the “official behavior” and extends to all facets of life including the law.
Al-Wefaq made its case by pointing to Manama’s pressure campaign against Bahrain’s highest Shiite religious authority, Sheikh Isa Qassim, who was stripped of his citizenship and placed under house arrest before finally departing the country last year.
Moreover, authorities continue to ban Friday prayers at the Imam Al-Sadiq Mosque in Sheikh Qassim’s hometown of Diraz.
Nearly a dozen other Shiite mosques have been raised to the ground and more than 20 Shiite religious scholars were jailed in recent years.
Bahrain’s Shiite community also suffers from discrimination in employment as well as education and is completely excluded from security and military institutions.
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source : LuaLua TV
Tuesday
23 April 2019
2:32:48 PM
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Bahrain’s opposition Al-Wefaq movement sounded the alarm over the “unprecedented rise” of religious persecution in the Persian Gulf kingdom.