Bahrain: Regime forces arrest 10 citizens during home raids
Security forces have raided homes in Bahrain's capital, Manama, arresting 10 citizens, amid ongoing protests against the ruling Aal-e Khalifah minority regime’s crackdown on political dissidents.
According to reports, during the home raids on Wednesday, security forces arrested Ali Abdullah Qassim, the son-in-law of Bahrain's prominent religious scholar Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, and nine other citizens, mostly teenagers.
The arrests came as many people across the sheikhdom took to the streets on Wednesday, chanting anti-regime slogans and calling for release of political prisoners.
The protesters also vented their anger at a move by the regime to place Sheikh Isa Qassim under house arrest.
In May 2017, a regime court in Bahrain convicted Sheikh Qassim of illegal collection of funds and money laundering, and sentenced him to one year in jail.
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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