DUBAI: Bahrain’s general prosecutor on Saturday said he had referred prominent Shiite opposition former-MP Khalil Marzooq to court on charges of “inciting terrorist crimes.”

Marzooq, a senior figure in the main Al-Wefaq opposition formation who was arrested on September 17, also faces charges of “promoting acts that amount to terrorist crimes,” Abdulrahman al-Sayyed said in a statement.

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