Bahraini Authorities Summon 4 Shiite Clerics for Interrogation

Rasa - The Bahraini security authorities sent four subpoenas summoning 4 Shiite clerics for interrogations, local media reports said.

News ID: 430453

Date: 19 June 2017 - 23:29

RNA - The activists said that the authorities summoned each of "Sheikh Hani Al-Banaa, Sheikh Sadeq Al-Ghuraifi, Sheikh Hussein Al-Sitri and Sheikh Sadeq Al-Qattan" for interrogations, Bahrain Mirror reported.

The reasons behind the sent subpoenas are still unknown.

The authorities arrest dozens of Shiite clerics over different charges and hold them in prisons.

The authorities launched a wide campaign against Shiite clerics in June 2016 after revoking the citizenship of the spiritual leader of Shia majority, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim.

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