Bahraini Regime Files Lawsuit to Suspend Al-Wefaq for 3 Months

The ministry of justice said Al-Wefaq must rectify its "illegal status following the annulment of four general assemblies for lack of a quorum and the non-commitment to the public and transparency requirements for holding them," as per Bahraini regulations, said BNA.
  
The ministry said it "filed the lawsuit following the insistence of Al-Wefaq on breaking the law... as well as its failure to amend violations related to its illegal general assemblies and the consequent invalidity of all its decisions," BNA reported.
 
Earlier this month, Bahrain's chief prosecutor charged the head of Al-Wefaq, cleric Ali Salman, and his political assistant, ex-MP Khalil Marzooq, with violating a law on foreign contacts after they met the US Assistant Secretary of State Tom Malinowski.
  
Bahrain has said the meeting at the US embassy violated the law stipulating that contacts between political associations and foreign parties "should be coordinated with the foreign ministry and in the presence" of its representative. Manama had told Malinowski, who is the assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labour, that he was "unwelcome" and should "leave immediately."