Alwaght- Hundreds of people took to the streets in Nigeria to support the leader of Bahraini opposition who faces a trial in the country.
After Friday Prayers in Kano, Nigeria’s second largest city, people rallied in the streets shouting slogans in support of the 79-year-old cleric, and denounced a recent raid on his supporters.
The west-backed Bahraini regime has stripped Sheikh Isa Qassim of his nationality and summoned him to attend a court hearing. Recently tiny Persian Gulf Island's security forces clashed with his supporters when they tried to forcefully enter his home.
The demonstrators held pictures of Sheikh Qassim and Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, the jailed leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), slamming Saudi Arabia’s support for the Manama regime.
“We have gathered here to condemn the Bahraini regime’s [Wednesday] attack on the sit-in near Sheikh Qassim’s residence”, said Sheikh Abdul Qadir Sanusi, a spokesman for the IMN.
He also censured the revocation of the senior Bahraini cleric’s nationality as well as Manama’s continued persecution of Shiite Muslims.
Manama has gone to lengths to clamp down on the dissent and rights activists. On March 14, 2011, troops from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were deployed to Bahrain to assist the Manama government in its crackdown.
Scores of people have lost their lives and hundreds of others sustained injuries or got arrested as a result of Al Khalifah regime’s crackdown on anti-regime activists.
