Bahrain: protests against the arrest of the famous Shiite cleric

Protesters in Bahrain took to the streets across the country to condemn the arrest of another Shia Muslim cleric as the ruling Al Khalifah dynasty steps up its crackdown and persecution of members of the religious community in the Persian Gulf kingdom.

Bahraini's main opposition group, the national Islamic society al-Wefaq, wrote in a post on its Twitter page that large numbers of Bahraini regime forces surrounded the house of Sheikh Muhammad Sanqour, the Bahraini prayer leader. Friday of the Imam al-Sadiq mosque in Diraz village, Monday and handed him a summons for interrogation. He was transferred to the prosecutor's office immediately after showing up at a local police station.