Al Wefaq leader blasts Bahraini regime over burial of martyred activists

A senior leader of the Bahraini al Wefaq party has strongly denounced the Ale Khalifah regime authorities for not returning the bodies of martyred activists who were massacred by Bahraini forces during a recent attack on the home of Sheikh Isa Qassim, the spiritual Leader of Bahrain's Shia majority.

According to Press TV, Sheikh Hasan al-Dehi, the Deputy Head of al Wefaq, issued a statement on Monday, denouncing the Manama regime’s refusal to return the bodies as a violation of all existing “religious and human values.”

The families of the activists martyred by Bahraini security forces had earlier called on the Ale Khalifah regime to return the bodies of their loved ones.

The families of martyred activists have criticized the authorities for depriving them of bidding farewell to their loved ones after officials buried the bodies without their permission.

A Bahraini Interior Ministry official said the five were buried on Friday after having contacted the families to attend funeral services, only to change their minds later. 

The statement by al Wefaq also termed the assassination of activists as “premeditated murder.”

The Bahrain regime forces “murdered and executed” the activists after accusing them of violating the rule of law, the al Wefaq leader stressed.

On May 23, Bahraini forces raided the village of Diraz, which has been under a military siege for almost a year, and stormed the home of Sheikh Isa Qassim, the spiritual Leader of Bahrain's Shia majority.

Regime forces martyred at least five demonstrators, wounded dozens and arrested over 280 people during the crackdown.

Elsewhere in the statement, Dehi stressed that the Manama regime had failed to curb the popular uprising during the bloody attack on protesters who had convened in al-Fida Square in the native village of Sheikh Qassim.

He concluded by saying that the activists at al-Fida Square had defended their “esteem, dignity and religious values."

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