(24 May 2017) Over a thousand Iraqi Shiites demonstrated in front of the Bahraini embassy in Baghdad on Wednesday.
They were angered by a Bahraini police raid on the hometown of a prominent Shiite cleric, which left at least five demonstrators dead and 286 people arrested.
Teargas and rubber bullets were fired during Tuesday's police operation targeting Diraz, home to Sheikh Isa Qassim and a long-running sit-in supporting him.
The operation followed a Bahraini court decision giving Qassim a year's suspended prison sentence and seizing assets belonging to him and his ministry.
He could be deported at any time after authorities stripped him of his citizenship last June over accusations that he fuelled extremism.
His supporters deny the allegations and called his trial politically motivated.
Shiites and others took part in 2011 Arab Spring protests for greater rights from the Sunni monarchy of Bahrain.
Bahrain put down the protests with the help of forces from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
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