DAMASCUS (Press TV) – A senior Syrian Shia cleric has been arrested and his son subjected to assault and battery in the Arab country’s southwest as violence retains its hold on the nation following last year’s foreign-backed ouster of Syria’s democratically-elected government.
Sheikh Adham al-Khatib, who represents the followers of the Household of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in the country, was nabbed in the city of Sayyida Zainab, Press TV’s Syria Bureau reported.
Various other sources confirmed the development, adding that the incident had also involved physical and verbal attack against the cleric’s son, Ja’afar, and the latter’s companion.