{"id":18072,"date":"2019-12-25T03:50:41","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T03:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=18072"},"modified":"2019-12-25T03:50:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T03:50:41","slug":"cleric-urges-muslim-countries-to-demand-guarantees-on-sheikh-zakzaky-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/cleric-urges-muslim-countries-to-demand-guarantees-on-sheikh-zakzaky-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleric Urges Muslim Countries to Demand Guarantees on Sheikh Zakzaky Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"subtitle\">TEHRAN (IQNA) \u2013 The secretary general of the World Ahl-ul-Bayt (AS) Assembly urged Muslim countries to demand that Nigeria\u2019s government ensure the safety and health of senior Shia cleric Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky.<\/div>\n<div class=\"body ah_body\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"image_btn img-responsive\" title=\"Cleric Urges Muslim Countries to Demand Guarantees on Sheikh Zakzaky Health\" src=\"https:\/\/iqna.ir\/files\/en\/news\/2019\/12\/24\/47877_815.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a forum in Tehran on Tuesday marking the 4<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the Zaria Massacre in Nigeria, Ayatollah Reza Ramezani said Islamic countries should use their social and political capacities and demand ensuring Sheikh Zakzaky\u2019s health.<\/p>\n<p>The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) should also act in this respect, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ayatollah Ramezani noted that Sheikh Zakzkay\u2019s health is in critical conditions and he should receive treatment immediately.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2015, the Nigerian army raided Sheikh Zakzaky\u2019s residence and nearby buildings in the northern city of Zaria.<\/p>\n<p>The top cleric, who is in his mid-sixties, lost his left eyesight in the raid. More than 340 people, including the Sheikh\u2019s sons, were also killed at the hands of the Nigerian army.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"image_btn img-responsive\" title=\"Cleric Urges Muslim Countries to Demand Guarantees on Sheikh Zakzaky Health\" src=\"https:\/\/iqna.ir\/files\/en\/news\/2019\/12\/24\/47878_858.jpg\" alt=\"Cleric Urges Muslim Countries to Demand Guarantees on Sheikh Zakzaky Health\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" align=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Zakzaky and his wife as well as a large number of his supporters were arrested following the raid.<\/p>\n<p>The Sheikh was charged just in April 2018 with murder, culpable homicide, unlawful assembly, disruption of public peace and other accusations. He has pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, Nigeria\u2019s federal high court ordered his unconditional release from jail following a trial, but the government has so far refused to set him free although his health has been deteriorating in detention.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN (IQNA) \u2013 The secretary general of the World Ahl-ul-Bayt (AS) Assembly urged Muslim countries to demand that Nigeria\u2019s government ensure the safety and health of senior Shia cleric Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky. &nbsp; Speaking at a forum in Tehran on Tuesday marking the 4th anniversary of the Zaria Massacre in Nigeria, Ayatollah Reza Ramezani said &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-islamic-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18072","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18073,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18072\/revisions\/18073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}