Al-Khalifah Banning Major Friday Prayer for 9 Months

Rasa - The Bahraini regime authorities banned the major Friday Prayer at Imam Sadeq (P) Mosque in Diraz in the context of its oppressive policy admitted for 9 months.

News ID: 428932

Date: 15 April 2017 - 22:18

RNA - This ban has been accompanied torturing measures which claimed 8 martyrs. The Bahrainis have also continued their demonstrations in several areas to express their support to the leader Sheikh Issa Qassem rejection for hosting Formula One race aimed at ameliorating the regime’s image despite its continuous crimes against the locals who have revolted for the sake of freedom, democracy and human rights, Al-Manar reported.

Since February 14, 2011, thousands of anti-regime protesters have held numerous demonstrations in Bahrain on an almost daily basis, calling on the al-Khalifah rulers to relinquish power.

In March that year, troops from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, themselves repressive Arab regimes, were deployed to the country to assist Manama in its crackdown on protests. Hundreds of Bahraini activists have been imprisoned and suppressed.

On June 20, Bahraini authorities stripped Sheikh Qassim of his citizenship, less than a week after suspending the al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, the country’s main opposition bloc, and dissolving the Islamic Enlightenment Institution founded by Qassim, and the opposition al-Risala Islamic Association.

Over the past few weeks, demonstrators have held sit-in protests outside Sheikh Qassim’s home to denounce his citizenship removal.

Bahrain has also sentenced Sheikh Ali Salman, another revered opposition cleric, to nine years in prison on charges of seeking regime change and collaborating with foreign powers, which he has denied.

Sheikh Salman was the secretary general of the al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, which was Bahrain’s main opposition bloc before being dissolved by the regime.

The country’s only remotely critical newspaper, Al Wasat, which was shut down in 2011, has now been ordered by the government to close its online edition too after criticizing the executions.

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