Amnesty Criticizes Bahrain Regime’s Threats against Cleric

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Amnesty International criticized the Bahraini regime for threatening a cleric who was stripped of his nationality in 2012, saying Manama must ‘rescind' the decision, as the organization's press release said on Thursday.\
The Amnesty official criticized the Bahraini regime's decision to revoke the nationality of Ayatollah Sheikh Hussain al-Najati and other opposition figures as an "arbitrary attempt to silence all government critics," stressing that, "It should be rescinded immediately."

On April 15, the Batable and must stop immediately," said AI Deputy Director of the Middle East and North Africa Program, Said Boumedouha, on Thursday.

Ayatollah Najati had been among the 31 opposition figures deprived of their Bahraini nationality by the country's Interior Ministry in 2012.

On April 16, Bahrain's main opposition bloc al-Wefaq National Islamic Society also slammed Manama's move as "unlawful," saying that, "Targeting national religious figures is meant to target the whole people of Bahrain."

Source: News agencies, Edited by website team