Bahraini cleric released after interrogation

The head of the Religious Freedoms Department at the Bahrain Human Rights Observatory, Sheikh Maytham Al-Salman, said that the Bahraini authorities released the prominent Shiite cleric who is the president, Sayed Majeed Al-Mesh’al after being accused of speeches against the regime.

Al-Salman further stated that Al-Mesh’al denied the charges of “promoting hatred against the regime” raised against him, over his mentioning of the UN special rapporteurs reports on the human rights conditions in Bahrain.

Al-Salman had stated that the Al-Naim Police Station summoned Al-Mesh’al for interrogation.