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Bahrain’s Shia leader urges peaceful defense of tortured defendants facing mass trial

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TEHRAN — Sheikh Isa Qassim, the senior Shia cleric whose citizenship Bahrain’s rulers revoked in 2016, urged the public on Friday to stand peacefully behind 60 clerics awaiting a court verdict on November 8, and told the monarchy that a case built on “fabricated and defamatory accusations”…

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