A Bahraini appeals court on Thursday upheld an order dissolving the country’s main opposition group despite international criticism of the Gulf kingdom’s intensified crackdown on dissent. A lower court had ordered the dissolution of the Al-Wefaq association in July over accusations including “harbouring terrorism” and ordered its funds to be ...
Family of Bahraini opposition leader and Secretary General of the main opposition group Al-Wefaq Society, Sheikh Ali Salman, said that they received a phone call stating that Salman was referred for interrogation. “I received a phone call from Sheikh Ali Salman stating that he was now being referred to the ...
