{"id":10581,"date":"2016-12-16T19:33:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T19:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=10581"},"modified":"2016-12-16T19:33:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T19:33:59","slug":"bahrain-authorities-ban-friday-prayers-in-diraz-for-28th-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/bahrain-authorities-ban-friday-prayers-in-diraz-for-28th-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain Authorities Ban Friday Prayers in Diraz for 28th Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahraini authorities continue to prevent citizens from performing the largest Friday prayers for the 28<sup>th<\/sup> week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Al-Manar correspondent reported that regime forces applied heavy measures, blocking streets leading to Imam Sadeq Mosque in the besieged town of Diraz.<\/p>\n<p>Diraz has been since June witnessing a sit-in by dozens of citizens, in protest against authorities\u2019 decision to strip prominent Shia cleric, Ayatollah Sheikh Issa al-Qassem f his citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Bahrain\u2019s appeals court has ruled to uphold a nine-year jail sentence handed down to senior Shia opposition cleric, Sheikh Ali Salman, despite widespread criticism both at home and abroad against his imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Salman was arrested in December 2014 for backing reforms in the country through peaceful means.<\/p>\n<p>Bahraini authorities revoked Sheikh Qassem\u2019s citizenship on June 20. They later dissolved the main opposition bloc, the al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, which Sheikh Salman heads, as well as the Islamic Enlightenment Institution, founded by the 79-year-old cleric, besides another opposition movement, the al-Risala Islamic Association.<\/p>\n<p>The European Union and the 35-member UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) have recently urged Bahrain to end its heavy-handed crackdown on political dissent.<\/p>\n<p>Since February 14, 2011, thousands of anti-regime protesters have held numerous demonstrations in Bahrain on an almost daily basis, calling on the Al Khalifah family to relinquish power.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong>Al-Manar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahraini authorities continue to prevent citizens from performing the largest Friday prayers for the 28th week. Al-Manar correspondent reported that regime forces applied heavy measures, blocking streets leading to Imam Sadeq Mosque in the besieged town of Diraz. Diraz has been since June witnessing a sit-in by dozens of citizens, in protest against authorities\u2019 decision &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[1345,528,575,1347,1346,745,22],"class_list":["post-10581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-world-news","tag-banning","tag-friday","tag-human-rights","tag-illegal","tag-khalifa","tag-prayer","tag-takfiri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10583,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10581\/revisions\/10583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}