DUBAI (Reuters) - A leading Bahraini opposition figure was taken by police to the public prosecutor on Tuesday, in what his party said was an attempt to suppress dissent in the U.S.-allied island kingdom.
The Interior Ministry said on Twitter that Khalil al-Marzouq, a former lawmaker and an aide to the opposition Al Wefaq party's Secretary General Sheikh Ali Salman, had been summoned and taken to the prosecutor. It gave no details.
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