Rights Group Calls for Release of Bahraini Shia Cleric
The Center for Religious Freedoms affiliated to Bahrain’s Human Rights Watch described the charges leveled against the cleric as baseless, Manam Post reported.
Al-Maliki has been arrested at the order of Bahrain’s general prosecutor, the report said.
The human rights situation in Bahrain has deteriorated since 2011, when the repressive Al Khalifa regime launched a brutal crackdown on peaceful protests and began targeting activists and human rights advocates.
Since mid-February 2011, thousands of anti-regime protesters have held numerous demonstrations in the streets of Bahrain, calling for the ruling Al Khalifa family to relinquish power.
Scores of people have been killed and hundreds of others injured and arrested in the Manama regime’s ongoing crackdown on dissent.
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