Bahrain\u2019s Shia cleric Sayyed Mohieldin Al-Mashaal walked out of prison on Wednesday after spending one year behind bars.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Bahrain\u2019s Shia cleric Sayyed Mohieldin Al-Mashaal walked out of prison on Wednesday after spending one year behind bars.<\/p>\n
Al-Mashaal was arrested last August along the causeway connecting Bahrain with neighboring Saudi Arabia before being accused of \u201cinciting hatred against the regime\u201d.<\/p>\n
The charges were based on a sermon that the cleric delivered a few months prior to his arrest.<\/p>\n
But Manama\u2019s critics say that the allegations were politically-motivated and part of the regime\u2019s clampdown on Bahrain\u2019s Shiite majority.<\/p>\n
Dozens of Shia clerics have been detained and sentenced to prison terms on similar charges.<\/p>\n
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Bahrain\u2019s Shia cleric Sayyed Mohieldin Al-Mashaal walked out of prison on Wednesday after spending one year behind bars.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Bahrain\u2019s Shia cleric Sayyed Mohieldin Al-Mashaal walked out of prison on Wednesday after spending one year behind bars. Al-Mashaal was arrested last August along the causeway connecting Bahrain with neighboring Saudi Arabia before being accused …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":17560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1092,54,861,246,79],"class_list":["post-6297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islam","tag-arrest","tag-bahrain","tag-manama","tag-prison","tag-shia"],"yoast_head":"\n