Bahrain suspends main Shiite opposition party amid crackdown

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Bahrain suspended the tiny island kingdom’s largest Shiite political group and froze its assets on Tuesday as part of a widening crackdown on activists and dissent five years after the country’s Arab Spring protests.

A statement from the Justice and Islamic Affairs Ministry carried on the state-run Bahrain News Agency said a court made the decision to suspend al-Wefaq to “safeguard the security of the kingdom.”



[...] the island has faced low-level unrest, protests and attacks on police.