The Lebanese Minister of Interior, Bassam Mawlawi, asked the General Directorate of Public Security to take all measures leading to the deportation of non-Lebanese members of the Bahraini Al-Wefaq Society outside the country.
Today, Wednesday, the media office of the Minister of Interior said that the request came due to the convening of the Al-Wefaq press conference on the 11th of December in Beirut, “an offense to Lebanon’s relationship with the sisterly Kingdom of Bahrain, and harm to the interests of the Lebanese state.”
This action comes after Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati requested the Public Prosecution to conduct the necessary investigations regarding the conference, following Manama's submission of an official protest to Lebanon regarding it.
Al-Wefaq Society organized a press conference in Beirut last Saturday.
On the following day, the Bahraini Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that it had submitted a "severe protest" to the Lebanese Foreign Ministry over the "totally unacceptable" hosting.
At its conference in Beirut, Al-Wefaq, which is banned in Bahrain, spoke of "human rights violations" that citizens of the kingdom have been subjected to in the past two years.
This coincides with an ongoing diplomatic crisis between Lebanon and the Gulf countries, led by Saudi Arabia, as a result of a statement about the war in Yemen made by George Kordahi before his appointment as Minister of Information in Lebanon and led him to resign on the third of this December.