Hawzah News Agency-According to the report, the authorities made 199 violations to tighten the grip on commemorating Ashura rituals organized by Shia annually, marking Imam Hussein bin Ali's martyrdom, the third Imam of the Shiites.

Salam said that the violations were resembled in "summoning and interrogating preachers, religious citers, obsequies' administrative and normal people, arbitral arrests, maltreatment, sabotaging and confiscating flags and banners as well as clamping down on those taking part in Ashura processions through tear gas."

"The authorities made 57 violations in 2013, 79 in 2014, 169 in 2015 and recorded the highest rate in 2016 with 199 violations, which proves what the organization had already concluded that the violations of religious freedoms are taking place in a systematic way by the Bahraini authorities," according to the organization.

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