{"id":618,"date":"2017-08-26T15:08:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T15:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/saudi-forces-demolish-shia-mosque-in-awamiyah\/"},"modified":"2017-08-26T15:08:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T15:08:31","slug":"saudi-forces-demolish-shia-mosque-in-awamiyah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/saudi-forces-demolish-shia-mosque-in-awamiyah\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi forces demolish Shia mosque in Awamiyah"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Saudi forces reportedly razed a Shia mosque in the kingdom’s oil-rich Eastern Province as Riyadh presses ahead with its heavy-handed clampdown on members of the religious community.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\n\tLocal sources, requesting anonymity, said Saudi troops leveled Ayn Imam Hussain Mosque to the ground in the town of al-Awamiyah, located some 390 kilometers northeast of the capital Riyadh, on Friday.<\/p>\n

\n\tVideo footage published on Twitter social media network showed dozens of\u00a0concrete blocks and pieces of iron scattered around.<\/p>\n

\n\tSince May, Saudi regime forces have imposed a deadly crackdown on Awamiyah \u2014 the hometown of late prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr, whose execution by the Al Saud regime drew firm international condemnation and sparked mass protests across the Middle East.<\/p>\n

\n\tSaudi authorities call the\u00a0clampdown a \u201csecurity campaign\u201d against the gunmen there, and have used the measure as a pretext to launch almost daily attacks against the town, destroying residential areas, setting fire to buildings, and reportedly threatening the residents to either leave or face potentially deadly swoops.<\/p>\n

\n\tEarlier this month, foreign journalists\u00a0paid a visit to Awamiyah after they were permitted entry for the first time, and witnessed the substantial level of destruction that Saudi forces had wrought on the town.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe residents said Saudi authorities had prevented emergency services from reaching wounded locals since July 26, and failed to provide humanitarian assistance to the trapped citizens of the town.<\/p>\n

\n\tThey noted that the only chance for people to leave Awamiyah had been short periods coordinated with local volunteers and pro-democracy activists.<\/p>\n

\n\tEarlier this month, Stephane Dujarric, the spokesman for UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, said that all Riyadh\u2019s actions should be in line with its commitments to human rights.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis is while multiple human rights groups have voiced concern over the situation in Awamiyah, and criticized Western countries for keeping mum on Saudi Arabia\u2019s atrocities there.<\/p>\n

\n\tLast month, Ottawa expressed \u201cdeep concern\u201d over Saudi Arabia\u2019s apparent use of Canadian military equipment in their crackdown against the minority Shia citizens in the restive Eastern Province.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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