Bahrain seeks dissolution of secular opposition party

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Bahrain’s justice ministry said Monday it filed a lawsuit to dissolve a secular opposition party, the state-run news agency said, months after the country’s main Shiite opposition party was banned.

The justice ministry “has filed a lawsuit requesting the dissolution of the National Democratic Action Society (Waed), in light of Waed’s serious violations of the principle of respect for the rule of law, its support of terrorism… and for its promotion of political change by force,” according to a statement carried by state-run Bahrain News Agency.

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