In a statement released on Sunday, Sheikh Akram al-Kaabi described the Bahraini rulers as tyrants and said, “This regime has lost its Bahraini identity and denied the freedom, will, and dignity of the nation.”
He further described the executed Bahraini fighters as two brave young men and true followers of the third Shiite Imam, Imam Hussein (AS).
Sheikh Kaabi also condemned the international community’s silence on the executions as “shameful” and said, “It seems that human rights organizations have never heard of Bahrain or this country does not exist on the world map at all!”
Bahrain this week executed three people convicted in two separate cases. Human rights groups had been warning against the execution of two men, Ali Mohamed Hakeem al-Arab and Ahmed Isa Ahmed Isa al-Malali.
Malali and Arab were convicted in a mass trial involving 60 people in January 2018. Both had exhausted all possible judicial appeals.
A last-minute appeal to stop their imminent execution was also issued by the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings, Agnès Callamard, who said in a statement the men were allegedly tortured, prevented from attending their trial and sentenced to death in absentia.