Bahrain summons Iraqi diplomat over criticism from ex-PM Maliki

FILE PHOTO: Iraqi Vice President and former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki attends to cast his vote at a polling station during the parliamentary election in Baghdad, Iraq May 12, 2018. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah/File Photo

DUBAI (Reuters) - Bahrain's Foreign Ministry summoned the deputy charge d'affaires of the embassy of Iraq on Monday to denounce footage of former Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki criticising Manama's crackdown on the Shi'ite opposition.

Maliki who now heads an Iraqi coalition called "the State of Law", attended a meeting last week organised by the February 14 movement, a Bahraini activist group which Manama designated a terrorist group in 2014.