Bahrain detains student, teachers over Koranic recitation to music
 

Bahrain's public prosecutor has charged a high school student and two teachers with insulting Islam in connection with a video showing the student reciting verses from the Koran to musical accompaniment, state news agency BNA reported on Wednesday. The Ministry of Education investigated the video and found that the school had entered a competition for Koranic recitation, commonly held for children around the Muslim world. Two teachers and the student were subsequently questioned by the public prosecutor. "It also ordered them detained protectively over the case." Western-allied Bahrain has a Shi'ite Muslim majority and is ruled by the Sunni Muslim al-Khalifa dynasty.

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