Major opposition figures not among those who regained Bahraini citizenship: Report
Tehran (KNA) - A new report shows major Bahraini opposition figures and activists, who have been stripped of their nationality by Manama, are not among hundreds of those people whose citizenship will be restored under a recent amnesty order by the king of the Persian Gulf’s tiny island country.
Since 2011, when a popular uprising began against Al Khalifah regime in Arab kingdom, Manama has prosecuted hundreds of anti-regime protesters in mass trials and banned main opposition groups as a part of a heavy-handed crackdown aimed at stifling opposition voices.
During the past seven years, thousands of anti-regime protesters have kept on demonstrating across the country on an almost daily basis, demanding that the Al Khalifah regime relinquish power and allow a just system representing all Bahrainis, most of whom Shia Muslims, to be established.
Scores of people have lost their lives and hundreds of others sustained injuries or got arrested as a result of the Al Khalifah regime's crackdown. Furthermore, Manama has revoked the nationality of hundreds of protesters, opposition figures and activists as a punishing measure.
Bahrain's leading Shia cleric, Sheikh Isa Qassim, is among those who has been stripped from his Bahraini nationality in 2016, when a Bahraini court convicted him of illegal collection of funds and money laundering, and sentenced him to one year in jail suspended for three years.
Source: PressTV