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| Bahrain jugs opposition chief |
| 2014-12-29 |
| Dubai -- Bahrain’s main opposition movement Al Wefaq said its leader Sheikh Ali Salman was arrested on Sunday following a lengthy interrogation at the interior ministry. Salman, re-elected on Friday as leader of the opposition group, had been summoned for questioning about “violating certain aspects of the law”, the ministry said earlier without providing further details. His lawyer Abdullah Al Shamlan tweeted that Salman had been accused of “inciting hatred against the government and calling for its overthrow by force”. He said he had not been allowed to attend his client’s questioning by the police criminal investigation department. Al Wefaq’s statement demanded the immediate release of its leader, calling his detention “a dangerous adventure that will complicate the political situation in Bahrain”. In July, the justice ministry sued Al Wefaq, demanding that it rectify its “illegal status following the annulment of four general assemblies for lack of a quorum and the non-commitment to the public and transparency requirements for holding them”. The Manama administrative court slapped Al Wefaq with the ban on October 28 and gave it three months to hold an assembly to elect its leadership. The ruling came after Al Wefaq announced it was boycotting a parliamentary election in November. Al Wefaq, which withdrew its lawmakers from parliament in protest, denounced the vote as a “farce”. |
| Posted by:Steve White |