Complex sentence: Daly then appointed a Persian, Mohammed Sharif to head the Manama municipality and provided protection to a growing number of individuals, especially the still--oppressed countryside Shia who sought to use this new status to voice their demands and grievances.
Split into simpler sentences: Daly then appointed a Persian, Mohammed Sharif to head the Manama municipality. Daly also provided protection to a growing number of individuals, especially the still--oppressed countryside Shia who sought to use this new status to voice their demands and grievances.