GENEVA (16 August 2016) – The systematic harassment of the Shia population by the authorities in Bahrain, including stripping many of them of citizenship, is deeply concerning, a group of United Nations human rights independent experts* said today. “The intensified wave of arrests, detentions, summons, interrogations and criminal charges brought against numerous Shia religious clerics and singers, human rights defenders and peaceful dissidents is having a chilling effect on fundamental human rights,” the human rights experts said.
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Source: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Originally published 16 August 2016. This page reproduces only a short excerpt; the complete text remains on the official source website.
