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Religious Repression and Disorder: Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, and Yemen
Report on religious repression and disorder in Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, and Yemen.
The ACLED-Religion pilot project collects real-time data on religious repression and disorder in the Middle East and North Africa. This spotlight report analyzes key trends from the latest data on Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, and Yemen. For more, download the full ACLED-Religion dataset or explore the data through the interactive ACLED-Religion dashboard.
Bahrain: Ongoing Repression of Shiite Religious Practices
Bahrain is an island kingdom ruled by the Sunni Muslim Al Khalifa royal family...
ACLED-Religion data shed light on...
Iran: Targeting of Religious Minorities
The Islamic Republic of Iran is a ‘clerical oligarchy’...
Between January and March 2021, ACLED-Religion records 71 repression events...
Iraq: ‘Immoral’ Leisure Activities and the Emergence of ‘Façade’ Shiite Militias
In Iraq, ‘immoral’ leisure activities have been the subject...
Rabu Allah and People of the Good are new groups operating as ‘façade’ militias...
At the same time as the halt in liquor store attacks...
Yemen: Promoting Houthi Sectarian Ideology Amid the Battle for Marib
Six years after the eruption of Yemen’s civil war, the Houthi movement...
The propagation of Houthi ideology is also a key strategy...
Funding for this report was provided by the US Department of State’s Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations through the Quantifying Religious Repression and Religious Conflict grant...
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