Bahrain: Kingdom of Persecution
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Kingdom of Persecution
Today SALAM for Democracy & Human Rights has issued a distinctive report (attached) on titled: “Kingdom of Persecution”. The report aimed at monitoring human rights violations committed against Shiite clerics in Bahrain between the years 2011 and 2017. These violations included death sentences, life imprisonment, citizenship revocation, enforced deportation, arbitrary detention, harsh prison sentences, where many religious scholars are subjected to humiliation and physical torture.
This report reveals that the security authorities in Bahrain summoned 156 Shiite religious clerics only for speeches, ideological tendencies or political views. The report likewise shows that 89 religious scholars have been arbitrarily arrested by th...