Shia Muslims

Riyadh uses death penalty as tool to crush Shia Muslims: Amnesty

Nov 08, 2018 08:31

Amnesty International has warned against what appears to be imminent executions of a dozen Shia Muslims on death row in Saudi Arabia, blasting the Riyadh regime for resorting to death sentences as a “tool” to suppress the kingdom’s Shia minorities.
Nigeria court refuses to release Zakzaky on bail

Nov 08, 2018 03:08

A Nigerian court has refused to grant bail to Ayatollah Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, days after more than 40 of his supporters were martyred during protests demanding his release.
Iranian academicians, ordinary people protest at Nigeria's crackdown on Muslims

Nov 06, 2018 13:43

A group of academicians and ordinary people gathered in front of the UN office in Tehran and condemned the Nigerian government's crackdown on Muslims.
Death toll from attack on Islamic Movement in Nigeria supporters rises to 42

Oct 31, 2018 12:41

The Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) says 42 of its members have been martyred by Nigerian security forces during protests in the capital Abuja over the past two days.
Millions of devotees on monumental Arba’een journey

Oct 26, 2018 11:06

The Arbaeen March, as the traditional 40th day of mourning for the martyrs of the epic of Ashura nears, and pilgrims make their way to the city of Karbala in Iraq for paying homage at the holy shrine of the Chief of Martyrs, Imam Husain (AS), the grandson of Prophet Mohammad (SAWA).
Shia Muslim woman injured amid Saudi regime forces’ raid on Qatif

Oct 17, 2018 16:45

A young woman has been shot and injured after Saudi regime forces stormed the kingdom’s oil-rich and Shia-populated Eastern Province as the Riyadh regime presses ahead with its brutal clampdown against pro-democracy campaigners and political dissidents.
Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim re-hospitalized in UK

Oct 11, 2018 11:41

Bahrain's most prominent religious scholar Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, will undergo a second surgery on his eye on Thursday in a hospital in the British capital, London.
Nigerians protest rally in Abuja to demand Sheikh Zakzaki's release

Oct 06, 2018 11:11

Shia Muslims in Nigerian capital of Abuja have one again staged a protest rally to call for the release of the prominent religious scholar Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, who is still in prison despite a 2016 high court ruling.
Islamophobic hate crime injures Muslim worshipers at north London mosque

Sep 19, 2018 11:19

Worshippers leaving a mosque in London have been hit by a car in a possible hate crime that saw the driver hurling Islamophobic slurs at the people taking part in a religious ceremony for the martyrdom anniversary of Prophet Muhammad's (SAWA) grandson.
Saudi forces tear down Muharram mourning tents in Qatif region

Sep 13, 2018 07:46

Reports coming out of Saudi Arabia say the regime’s troops have attacked tents set up in the kingdom’s Shia-populated Qatif region in preparation for the mourning rituals during the lunar month of Muharram.