Bahrain’s Aal-e Khalifah regime deports youth for supporting Ayatollah Sheikh Qassim
Bahraini regime officials have deported a young man to neighboring Saudi Arabia over his support for prominent religious scholar, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, who has been stripped of nationality by the Aal-e Khalifah regime and is suffering from deteriorating health.
According to Press TV, Ahmed Ali al-Attiya, born to a Saudi father and a Bahraini mother, was handed over to Saudi authorities earlier this week, Arabic-language Lualua television network reported on Monday.
Attiya was a resident of the northwestern village of Diraz, where the residence of the 79-year-old clergyman is located, and had spent nearly two months in detention prior to his deportation. His two brothers have also been jailed.
On May 21, a Bahraini court convicted Sheikh Qassim of illegal collection of funds and money laundering and sentenced him to one year in jail suspended for three years.
It also ordered him to pay $265,266 in fines. The court ruling sparked widespread demonstrations across the Persian Gulf island State.
Thousands of anti-regime protesters have held demonstrations in Bahrain on an almost daily basis ever since a popular uprising began in the country in mid-February 2011.
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