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Bahrain to execute two activists despite concerns over torture
Jul 17, 2020 14:56A high-ranking official with Bahrain’s main Shia opposition group, al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, says death sentences being imposed against human rights campaigners and political dissidents will increase the public demand for the restructuring of the country’s political system.
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Sheikh Zakzaky’s lawyers demand dismissal of case, immediate release
Jul 17, 2020 07:46The lawyers of the jailed Muslim religious scholar Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky have called for the dismissal of the case against him and his wife as well as their immediate release from the Nigerian government's captivity.
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Black lives do not matter even in black Nigeria
Jul 02, 2020 07:55If the slogans and the placards reading "Black Lives Matter” in protest to the sporadic killings of citizens of color by the white-skinned US police forces have caught the attention of the international media, these same media horns have not much focused on the organized killing of black Nigerian Shi’a Muslims by the Nigerian regime of the same dark color which also claims to be Muslim.
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Activist detained by Saudi regime for criticizing discrimination of Shia Muslims
Apr 29, 2020 06:22Saudi forces have reportedly arrested a social activist over complaining about the Riyadh regime’s discriminatory and racist policies in the Shia-populated Qatif region.
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Top Saudi court hands down life term to imprisoned Shia Muslim dissident
Mar 01, 2020 13:55The Supreme Court of Saudi Arabia has sentenced an imprisoned political dissident from the oil-rich and Shia Muslim-populated Eastern Province to life in prison.
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Teenage boy martyred as Nigerian forces open fire on Sheikh Zakzaky supporters
Feb 28, 2020 06:21A teenage boy has been martyred after Nigerian police used live ammunition to disperse protesters demanding the release of Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky in the country’s northwestern state of Kaduna.
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Nigeria transfers Sheikh Zakzaky, wife to 'dilapidated' jail
Dec 06, 2019 09:09Nigerian authorities transfer top Shia cleric, Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, and his wife to a dilapidated prison, where many detainees have so far died due to lack of medical attention.
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Nigerian Muslim leader languishing in jail despite court's ruling
Dec 03, 2019 09:39In a statement issued to the press, the Islamic movement in Nigeria described the continuous detention of Sheikh Zakzaky and his wife Zeenat as one of the worst violations of the rule of law.
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The deafening silence on Sheikh Zakzaky
Nov 17, 2019 14:22There is hardly any news about the condition and whereabouts of the Leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) ever since his abrupt return to his country from an Indian hospital three months ago and his whisking away by the Nigerian security forces to an undisclosed destination.
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One killed as Nigerian forces open fire on Sheikh Zakzaky supporters
Nov 14, 2019 13:21At least one person has been killed and several others injured after Nigerian police used live ammunition to break up a religious gathering by supporters of senior cleric Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky.