AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Bahrain’s highest religious authority Sheikh Isa Qassim said that any resolution to the kingdom’s lingering crisis must include the release of political prisoners.
“There is no solution to the crisis … except by releasing prisoners,” the senior cleric said in a statement on Sunday.
Bahrain has the highest incarceration rate per capita in the Middle East and is home to an estimated 4,000 political prisoners. Among them is the country’s opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman who is serving a life sentence on trumped up charges and marked his fifth year behind bars last week.
In his latest statement, Sheikh Qassim described the opposition leader’s imprisonment as “an example of injustice.”
“The imprisonment of any participant in a sit-in, march and protest demanding rights is a blatant injustice,” the statement adds.
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source : LuaLua TV
Tuesday
31 December 2019
2:27:32 PM
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Bahrain’s highest religious authority Sheikh Isa Qassim said that any resolution to the kingdom’s lingering crisis must include the release of political prisoners.