In its first report of September 2019, the network of raids documented the arrest of four citizens, including the father of a martyr and a religious scholar, the summoning of dozens of Hussein’s preachers, al-Rawadeed, fathers of martyrs on the background of Ashura revival, and many violations against the prisoners of opinion, and the storming of many towns to remove imam Hussein’s manifestations.
The network said that the mercenary al-Khalifa assaults on Ashura manifestations in a number of towns, including: Malikia, Almqsha, Abu Saiba, Shakhura, Marikh, Bilad al-Qadeem. The regime summoned throughout the ten days of Muharram dozens of Hussein’s preachers on the background of their Ashura rhetoric, and a group of Rawadeed “speakers”, the men of steadfastness and the fathers of the martyrs who were arrested, including the father of the martyr Husam al-Haddad.
Sheikh Munir al-Maatouq, the young Mohamed Hassan of Sitra, and Muhammad Fadhel al-Marzouq of al-Diraz were also arrested in continuation of the sectarian approach to prevent Friday prayers at Imam al-Sadiq Mosque in al-Diraz for the 176th week in a row.
The report added that the mercenaries mobilized heavily in the capital Manama to crack down on the participants in the night prayer of the tenth of Muharram, and stormed the town of al-Diraz in an attempt to prevent Hussein’s marches.
Regarding the revolutionary movement, the monitoring network said that the Bahrainis commemorated Ashura in the ten days of September, the anniversary of Ashura, Imam Hussein “p”, despite all the practices of repression and encroachment on Ashura features by removing banners and sabotage the hosts, in addition to preventing prisoners of opinion from marking the occasion. Thousands of people took part in the central prayer in Manama.
In monitoring Qatif, the forces of the Saudi regime arrested Haider Ali Al Zayed from Al Awamiya. The Saudi illegal courts issued a new verdict on the scholar Sheikh Mohammed Al Habib from Safwa to double the years of imprisonment to 12 years and ban travel, after 9 unfair trial sessions. The courts also issued an initial sentence of 12 years on Ali al-Radwan detainee from al-Awamiya after several trial sessions.
