۲۰ اردیبهشت ۱۴۰۳ |۱ ذیقعدهٔ ۱۴۴۵ | May 9, 2024
HR Activist: Shiite Cleric Harassed in Jaw Prison for Performing Congregational Prayer

Human rights activist said that the security authorities in Jaw Prison in Bahrain dealt "impolitely" with the prominent Shiite cleric Sheikh al-Mansi who is serving one-year jail term over performing prayers" without a license.

Hawzah News Agency (Bahrain)‌ - Zainab Al-Khamis explained on her Instagram account that Sheikh Mohammad Al-Mansi was performing morning congregational prayer in building 4 of the notorios Jaw Prison, Bahrain’s central detention facility when one of the Jordanian officers came and asked him to immediately stop the prayer.

 

Sheikh  al-Mansi  is serving one-year jail term over performing prayers without a license from the Jaafaria Endowments (Waqf)

 

He was then tied up with chains and transferred to the prison's administration where he remained for an hour. 

 

She added that the Jordanian officer told Al-Mansi that he has orders from officer Isa Al-Yasi, indicating that it is not the first time Sheikh Al-Mansi gets insulted.

 

He was agitated when commemorating the martyrdom of Imam Al-Hassan Al-Askari as one of the policeman started screaming and messing up with the prisoners' contents while they were holding the religious rituals.

 

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