Wide Demonstrations Held Across India Against Sheikh Nimr Execution
KABUL: (MEP) The demonstrators denounced the execution of Sheikh Baqir al-Nimr the Saudi religious scholar in the demonstrations held at the invitation of the Council of India Scholars led by Sheikh Jawad in the presence scholars and prominent figures from different Islamic sects.
Saudi Arabia has issued in January 2nd heavy sentences against detainees, including the religious scholar who stood up against the Saudi’s Wahhabi government in support of the rights of Muslims in the Hijaz. He was later sentenced to death under flimsy charges. Relatives of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr said that the court had deprived him of the right to have a lawyer and the right of medical treatment.
In the details, thousands marched in addition to a number of religious scholars in wide demonstrations pervaded New Delhi and various cities, particularly Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad and Chinei.
The president of Minhaj-ul-Quran Foundation branch in Mumbai Sheikh Mohammed Shafiq Hanafi criticized Saudi government, saying: Al-Saud claims the protection of the Two Holy Shrines, while they are following the United States, which in turn seeks to destroy the Two Holy Shrines.
The Supreme Court’s lawyer in New Delhi Mahmoud Paracha said that the Saudi monarchy accuse each activist who calls for the establishment of democracy in the country of treason and issue death sentences on irrational basis.
On the other hand, New Delhi’s Imam Sheikh Sayed Mohsen Taqawi criticized the duality of Saudi Arabia’s policies towards the deviances and terrorism as also condemned the Saudi destructive role which led to the promotion and expansion of extremism.
Participants in these popular protests sent a message to the United Nations calling for the rejection of extremism and terrorism in the world as it requests an impartial investigation in the case of Sheikh Baqir al-Nimr’s execution.
