Bahraini police arrested a senior opposition figure, Majeed Milad, because he accused the Al Khalifa regime of ignoring threats by Takfiri group, ISIL.

Bahraini police arrested a senior opposition figure, Majeed Milad, because he accused the Al Khalifa regime of ignoring threats by Takfiri group, ISIL (so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Levant).

Milad was arrested on Wednesday, after interior ministry summoned him for questioning, media reported.

Shortly before his arrest, Milad, who is member in al-Wefaq’s secretariat-general, said that the Al Khalifa regime had been ignoring threats by ISIL to target mosques in the country.

In a post on his Twitter account, Milad stressed that Bahraini Shias would not leave mosques empty because of ISIL threats.

Milad’s tweets came after a string of recent attacks by ISIL targeted Shia worshipers in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Yemen in the past weeks.

Earlier on Tuesday, residents of Hamad city, which lies west of the capital Manama, disclosed a man disguised as a woman in al-Sayyeda Khadija Mosque.

The man first fled  the Mosque, but was then arrested by the residents, Bahraini media reported.

Last Friday, at least 26 Kuwaiti worshippers were martyred and more than 200 otehrs were injured as a Takfiri suicide bomber blew himself up in al-Sadeq Mosque in the Kuwaiti capital. ISIL claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack.

Al-Wefaq, prominent opposition group in Bahrain, denounced Milad's arrest as abusive and reckless, calling on the authorities to immediately release the opposition figure.