Bahrain Mirror: The Public Prosecution detained on Sunday (August 7, 2016) the Shiite cleric Isa Al-Mou'min for 7 days pending investigation over a sermon he delivered on Friday in "Al-Kheif" Mosque in "Al-Dair" village.

His son Mojtaba affirmed on his own Twitter account that "the investigation with his father came after a sermon he delivered a couple of days ago in the mosque." Sheikh Al-Mou'min criticized the security measures taken by the authorities against the Bahrainis and Shiites, in particular.

Al-Muharraq prosecution posted on its Twitter that a preacher has been arrested for 7 days pending investigation over inciting hatred against the constitutional regime and kingdom.

Sheikh Al-Mou'min is one of 217 Bahraini Shiite clerics who signed a statement on July 19, in which they declared that "The Shiite community is threatened in its existence".

The statement said, "We, the undersigned, join our voices to those of senior clerics, and declare that we, as a main and indigenous component of this nation (The Shiite component) we are now strongly convinced that we are being targeted in our very existence, identity, beliefs, rituals and [religious] duties." They added, "We demand an end to this targeting."

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