Earlier last week, on 7 May, political activists affiliated to Bahraini opposition groups delivered a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki moon, calling for his office to take a stand against the Bahraini regime’s systematic targeting of the Shi’a community.
Yemen is battling sectarianism as its Shi'a face discriminiation. Making up 45 percent of the population, they find their religion conflated with radical extremism and foreign conspiracies.
