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Ex-Bahraini MP: Regime Plans to Arrest Shiekh Qassim, Saudi Blamed for Regional Situation

Ex-Bahraini MP: Regime Plans to Arrest Shiekh Qassim, Saudi Blamed for Regional Situation
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Fatima Haydar

In 2011, the people of Bahrain flooded Manama's Pearl Roundabout calling for achieving greater political freedom and equality among Bahrainis. Typical of the Al Khalifa regime, peaceful and unarmed protesters were crushed in brutal crackdown by regime forces in addition to hundreds of Saudi, Emirati and other Arab mercenaries.

Throughout the last decade, Bahrainis have protested sporadically demanding social, economic and political rights. The regime, on the other hand, had committed a wide range of violations including arrests and systematic torture.

In recent times, the Al Khalifa regime forces stormed the house of Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim in Diraz, a few months after revoking his citizenship on June 20, 2016. They had earlier dissolved al-Wefaq as well as the Islamic Enlightenment Institution, founded by the 79-year-old cleric, and the al-Risala Islamic Association.





Ex-Bahraini MP: Regime Plans to Arrest Shiekh Qassim, Saudi Blamed for Regional Situation

In the light of the most recent developments, former Bahraini opposition MP, Jalal Fairooz, said that what was happening in the country is a message from the Al Khalifa regime to its allies, now that the GCC Summit Conference and the Manama Dialogue Conference had ended.

"The Bahraini regime wants to send a message to its allies, that it is able to control the tiny Gulf kingdom as it tried to test its control today by trying to arrest Sheikh Isa Qassim," Fairooz said.
However, the regime "failed in fulfilling its aims" as it was confronted with a popular uprising, he added.

The former MP went on to say that the Al Khalifa regime "plans to arrest Ayatollah Sheikh Qassim" but "it is closely monitoring the internal and regional situation, in light of the Saudi alliance being blamed for the situation in Iraq, Syria and Yemen, so it aims to be more cautious in dealing with this internal incident."

Fairooz explained that the regime is "plotting for something" which it will implement by the end of this month [December] and the beginning of January as the final verdict on Sheikh Qassim's "charade trials" will be upheld.

"The regime is taking advantage of the holiday season when the West is absent and busy with Christmas to cook-up something for the coming stage," the ex-MP indicated.

Fairooz believes that the Al Khalifa regime "wants to crush the democratic popular mobilization of the Bahraini people and to detain and totally eliminate popular opposition leaders headed by Sheikh Isa Qassim," in a bid to pave the way to stir things up in the Gulf kingdom in "the absence of any popular mobilization".

The former MP concluded that "What happened [Wednesday] morning is the best example of what the Bahraini people can do," adding that Bahrainis flooded Diraz from different cities and villages.
"The residents of Diraz gathered in the cordoned area and confronted the regime forces, forcing them to push back and retreat," he concluded.

Scores of people had been martyred and hundreds of others injured or arrested in the Bahraini crackdown on the anti-regime activists.

Source: Al-Ahed News

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