Bahraini police attack prisoners for practicing Shiite religious rituals

Bahraini Activists on social media said that Jaw Prison police attacked on Tuesday night (August 22, 2017) detainees in building 14 and transferred some of them to solitary confinement for practicing Shiite religious rituals.

Hawzah News Agency (Manama, Bahrain) - Activists stated that detainees were commemorating the martyrdom of Imam Mohammad Al-Jawad (as), ninth Shiite Imam.

The Bahraini authorities harass the Shia majority who intend to perform religious rituals in Bahrain and attack Shia detainees for practicing these rituals.