Bahrain’s Shia leader urges peaceful defense of tortured defendants facing mass trial
TEHRAN — Sheikh Isa Qassim, the senior Shia cleric whom Bahrain’s rulers stripped of his citizenship in 2016, urged the public on Friday to stand peacefully behind 60 clerics awaiting a court verdict on November 8, and warned the monarchy that a case built on “fabricated and defamatory accusations” could carry grave consequences.
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[Claude] Report 2 covers the same Bahrain mass trial of Shia clerics with torture allegations that Report 1 describes, and nothing in it contradicts Report 1.
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