Bahraini opposition leader’s daughter denied citizenship
Bahraini authorities have refused to grant the daughter of prominent Shia and opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman full citizenship as the ruling Al Khalifah regime does not shy away from its heavy-handed clampdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy campaigners in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom.
Sheikh Salman’s wife, Alya Radhi, wrote in a post published on her Twitter page that their three-year-old daughter Sareh still does not hold a Bahraini national identity card despite the fact that the child has all the required documents, Arabic-language Lualua television newspaper reported.
Radhi added that Bahraini officials are intentionally prolonging the registration process.
On November 1, 2017, the 52-year-old secretary general of the dissolved al-Wefaq National Islamic Society and two of his colleagues, Hassan Sultan and Ali al-Aswad, were alleged of “spying on behalf of a foreign country... with the aim of carrying out subversive acts against Bahrain and harming its national interests.”
Sheikh Salman was also alleged of “revealing defense secrets to a foreign country and disseminating information that would harm Bahrain's status and reputation.”
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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