Bahraini Forces Arrest Al-Wefaq Member Hamid Al-Basri in House Raid

Activists on social media outlets said that Bahraini security forces raided on early Monday morning (December 28, 2015) the house of the former member of the municipality council Hamid Al-Basri in the village of Sanabis.

Sources close to the family said that the authorities confiscated his mobile phone, personal laptop and an external hard-drive without presenting a search warrant.

Al-Basri is a member of Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society and had served as a municipal council member after running as a candidate on Al-Wefaq’s municipal election list in 2006. He also worked in the Society of Islamic Awareness, a religious association established in the 1970s.