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Bahraini political inmate dies of coronavirus in Jau Prison
Jun 09, 2021 12:14A Bahraini political prisoner has lost his life after being infected with COVID-19 in the notorious Jau Prison, amid a surge in coronavirus cases at heavily overcrowded jails in the tiny Persian Gulf island state.
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Eight martyred as twin blasts hit buses in Kabul's Shia Muslim Hazara neighborhoods
Jun 04, 2021 00:24Two separate bomb blasts have ripped through minibuses near a Shia Muslim Hazara neighborhood in the Afghan capital Kabul, martyring at least eight people and injuring nine others, police sources say.
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Grand Ayatollah Sistani calls on world nations to support Palestinians
May 12, 2021 04:45Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Hosseini Sistani has reiterated support for the spirited and firm resistance of Palestinians against the Israeli regime’s occupation, calling on freedom-loving nations worldwide to support the people in the face of Tel Aviv’s violent crackdown in al-Quds and bloody airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.
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Zarif: Takfiri terrorists are strangers to Islam, humanity
May 09, 2021 12:09Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has expressed grief over a bloody explosion outside a school in Afghanistan’s capital, saying the tragic incident shows that Takfiri terrorists are strangers to Islam and humanity.
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Bahrain: Sheikh Qassim warns of death of political prisoners amid coronavirus pandemic
Apr 01, 2021 11:46Bahrain’s most prominent religious scholar Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim has warned that political dissidents in Bahraini prisons are facing deaths and demanded their immediate release.
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Saudi regime to displace 521 families, raze houses in Qatif
Mar 16, 2021 15:14The Saudi regime plans to displace hundreds of families in Saudi Arabia’s Shia Muslim-majority Qatif region and raze their houses as part of a crackdown on dissent.
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‘Ayatollah Sistani’s wise remarks in meeting with Pope showed dignity of Islam’
Mar 11, 2021 10:19An senior official at the office of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says "wise" remarks by Iraq’s prominent Shia Cleric Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Ali al-Sistani during his recent meeting with the Pope showed "the dignity of Islam."
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Detained children beaten, threatened with rape by Bahrain police: Rights groups
Mar 11, 2021 04:26Bahrain’s police forces have beaten children they arrested on the anniversary of the 2011 pro-democracy uprising, threatening them with rape and electric shocks, according to two human rights groups.
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UN experts call on Saudi Arabia to free three young Shia activists
Mar 04, 2021 03:35UN human rights experts have urged Saudi Arabia to release three young Shia Muslims detained for allegedly taking part in anti-regime protests when they were minors, citing torture and unfair trials.
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Saudi Arabia arrests Sheikh Nimr’s brother
Feb 26, 2021 15:12Saudi regime forces have arrested Mohammad Baqir al-Nimr, the brother of executed Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, and the father of Ali al-Nimr, who is serving a jail sentence for allegedly taking part in anti-regime protests when he was 17.