Pars Today
Bahrain’s senior opposition Shia Muslim religious scholar Sheikh Ali Salman has had his prison sentence commuted by five years.
The Bahraini regime has revoked the nationality of Sheikh Abdullah al-Daqaq, a representative of distinguished Shia cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim, and two other activists.
A powerful bomb blast near a mosque in Pakistan has left at least 22 people martyred and dozens of others wounded in a Shia Muslim-populated area of the country’s northwestern tribal belt.
Bahrain has approved trial of civilians at military tribunals in a measure blasted by human rights campaigners as being tantamount to imposition of an undeclared martial law countrywide.
Bahraini protesters have staged a series of fresh anti-regime demonstrations across the Persian gulf kingdom in support of distinguished opposition cleric Sheikh Issa Qassim ahead of his trial session.
A court in Bahrain has handed down prison sentences ranging from seven to ten years to six anti-regime campaigners over their alleged involvement in an attack on Aal-e Khalifah regime forces in the Persian Gulf Arab kingdom.
People have staged separate rallies in Bahrain to express their outrage at the recent execution of three pro-democracy Shia Muslim campaigners at the hands of the ruling Aal-e Khalifah regime.
Police in Nigeria have used teargas to disperse peaceful protesters demanding the release of the country’s top Shia Muslim cleric, Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky.
People have gathered on the streets of Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province in protest to the suspicious death of a Shia Muslim political prisoner.
Dozens of Bahraini demonstrators have engaged in clashes with regime forces to express their strong opposition to the Aal-e Khalifah regime’s harsh crackdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy campaigners and condemn assaults on residential buildings.