Detained Bahraini opposition figures called on Wednesday (December 9, 2015) for the release of Sheikh Nimr Al-Nimr who was sentenced to death by a Saudi court because of his opposition to the Saudi regime.

“In these exceptional conditions the region is going through, the states and peoples are in urgent need of strengthening their unity, and so we call for the release of Sheikh Nimr Al-Nimr and all detained activists and prisoners of opinion,” they said in a statement from prison.

Detained Secretary-General of the Freedoms and Democracy Movement (Haq) Hassan Mushaima’, Al-Wefaq Secretary-General Sheikh Ali Salman, Sheikh Mohammad Habib Al-Miqdad, Sheikh Abduljalil Al-Miqdad, Sheikh Abdulhadi Al-Mokhawdar, Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, Salah Al-Khawaja, Mohammad Jawad Perweez, Mohammad Ali Al Ismail, and Sheikh Mirza Al-Mahrous signed the statement.

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