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| Bahrain court dissolves secular opposition group |
| 2017-06-02 |
| [DAWN] A Bahraini court dissolved a secular opposition party on Wednesday, a judicial official said, as authorities in the Gulf state kept up a crackdown on dissent. The decision by the administrative court, just months after the main party representing the kingdom’s Shia majority was also banned, was swiftly condemned by human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... groups. The justice ministry had requested the dissolution of the National Democratic Action Society (Waed) in March. It accused the party of "serious violations of the principle of respect for the rule of law", "support of terrorism" and "promotion of political change by force". Bahrain has been rocked by unrest since 2011, when its Sunni rulers crushed protests demanding a constitutional monarchy and an elected prime minister. Last week, police rubbed out five demonstrators in the home village of the spiritual leader of the kingdom’s Shia majority. The Sunni left-leaning former head of Waed, Ibrahim Sharif, was released from prison last July after serving a one-year sentence for incitement against the government. He had already served four years of a five-year sentence over the 2011 protests before being released under a royal amnesty in June 2015. |
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