Manama: Bahrain’s general prosecutor on Saturday said he had referred prominent Shiite opposition former MP Khalil Marzouq to court on charges of “inciting terrorist crimes”.
Marzouq, a senior figure in the main Al Wefaq opposition formation who was arrested on September 17, also faces charges of “promoting acts that amount to terrorist crimes”, Abdul Rahman Al Syed said in a statement.
The prosecutor also accused Marzouq of using his position in Al Wefaq, a legal association, to “call for crimes that are considered terror acts under the law,” the statement said.
The prosecutor confronted Marzouq with his public speeches in which he allegedly supported the “principles of terror elements... especially the terrorist group named the February 14 Coalition, which he openly supported,” the statement said.
It said that Marzouq had raised the flag of the clandestine group at a public rally after it was handed to him by a masked man.
Marzouq was deputy speaker in the 40-member parliament before 18 MPs from the influential Al Wefaq walked out in February 2011 in protest over violence against demonstrators.
