In a statement released by Ayatollah Qassem on Sunday, the leading cleric stressed that "it is impossible to halt the pro-democracy movement" staged by the Bahrainis almost four years ago.
His eminence said that the arrest of the Secretary General of al-Wefaq association, Sheikh Ali Salman, is one of the repression forms adopted by Al-Khalifa regime.
However, Ayatollah Qassem stressed that all attempts to suppress the Bahraini people are doomed to fail.
Meanwhile, his eminence underlined the peacefulness of the pro-democracy movement.
"The peacefulness of this movement is correlative."
"People believe they are righteous, and Allah is with the righteous people," Ayatollah concluded his statement.
