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Widespread Protests Hit Bahrain as Regime Continues Cracking Down on Dissent

Monday 29 May 2017
Widespread Protests Hit Bahrain as Regime Continues Cracking Down on Dissent

Five Killed after Bahraini Police Raided Protesters outside Top Cleric’s Home in Diraz (23 May 2017)

Bahraini troops attacked demonstrators rallying to protest Al Khalifa regime’s clampdown on Shiites’ spiritual leader and killing several of his supporters across the tiny Persian Gulf Kingdom.

Alwaght- Bahraini troops attacked demonstrators rallying to protest Al Khalifa regime's clampdown on Shiites' spiritual leader and killing several of his supporters across the tiny Persian Gulf Kingdom.

Regime Forces clashed with peaceful protesters who took to the streets of Sitra Island and chanted slogans against King Hamad bin Isa on Sunday night.

The protesters held the monarch responsible for recent crimes committed by his forces in the northwestern village of Diraz where several protesters were killed during a raid of Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim's home.

On May 23, police raided Diraz and stormed the home of sheikh Qassim to disperse protester who had hold sit-in out of his house. At least five demonstrators were killed and dozens more injured during the crackdown which also saw more than 280 people arrested. 

Photo of Five Activists Killed at the hands of Bahraini Police outside  Sheikh Isa Qassim Home in Diraz Village (23 May 2017) 

The unprecedented incursion into Diraz came days after regime's court sentenced Ayatollah Qassim one year in jail suspended for three years and ordered him to pay $265,266 in fines on charges of the 'illegal' collection of funds and money laundering. The charges emanated from the collection of an Islamic donation known as Khums, which in Shiite Islam is collected and spent by a senior cleric in the interests of the needy.

Last year, the cleric was also stripped of his citizenship, which sparked repeated sit-ins outside his residence in Diraz.

Also on Sunday, demonstrators staged a protest in support of Sheikh Qassem in Saar residential area, west of Manama, calling for the punishment of those behind the killing of activists.

Al Khalifah regime forces rushed to attack the peaceful protesters, firing toxic gases to disperse them.

Similar protests were also held in Bilad Al Qadeem town and the villages of Shahrkan, Samaheej, Bani Jamra, Musalla, Karranah, Karzakan, Karbabad, Daih and Sanabis late on Sunday.

The developments come as the fate of Sheikh Qassem remains unknown amid reports that the regime wanted to send him to exile either in Turkey or the United Arab Emirates after Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi rejected such a request in a show of support for the Shiite leader.

Bahrainis also held a symbolic funeral for the slain activists in the villages of Abu Saiba and Shakhora, calling for those responsible for the crimes to be held accountable.

The five victims were buried on Friday without their families’ permission in a move denounced by the victim’s relatives as a crime.

"The martyrs' families announce that depriving them from burying their sons in accordance with their wish can be construed as a crime which will be added to the first crime of liquidating them in the field," the families said in a statement.

In a statement on Sunday, two days after burying the bodies of the five people who were killed in the Diraz attack on May 23, 2017, the Bahraini Interior Ministry admitted to burying the killed civilians without handing over their bodies to their families for them to decide how they would like to hold their funerals and burial.

Thousands of anti-regime protesters have held numerous demonstrations in Bahrain on an almost daily basis ever since a popular uprising began in the kingdom in early February 2011. They are demanding that the Al Khalifah dynasty relinquish power and a just system representing all Bahrainis be established.

The Manama regime has spared no effort to clamp down on dissent and rights activists. On March 14, 2011, troops from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were deployed to Bahrain to assist Manama in its crackdown.

Scores of people have been killed and hundreds of others have been injured or arrested as a result of the Al Khalifah regime’s crackdown on anti-regime activists.

 

 

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