Hundreds of people have held a rally in Bahrain to express solidarity with prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim, whom authorities in the Persian Gulf kingdom have stripped of nationality, and to condemn the Al Khalifah regime’s brutal crackdown on pro-democracy campaigners and opposition figures. The protesters came together at Fada Square in the northwestern village of Diraz, situated about 12 kilometers (seven miles) west of the capital Manama, on ...