US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has called on the Bahraini regime to stop discriminating against Shias residing in the Gulf country.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has called on the Bahraini regime to stop discriminating against Shias residing in the Gulf country.
“In Bahrain, the government continue to question, detain and arrest Shia clerics, community members and opposition politicians,” said the top diplomat Tuesday.
Thousands of human rights protesters have held demonstrations in Bahrain on an almost daily basis ever since a popular uprising began in the tiny kingdom in mid-February 2011.
Manama has gone to great lengths to clamp down on any sign of dissent. Scores of people have lost their lives and hundreds of others sustained injuries or got arrested as a result of Al Khalifah regime’s crackdown on anti-regime activists.
