The First Criminal Appeals Court decided to commute the 10-year jail verdict issued against suspect accused of attempting to kill policemen to 7 years in jail, after it changed his charge from attempting to murder to attacking the bodily integrity of 2 policemen.

The Fourth High Criminal Court sentenced 6 suspects to life in prison over planting a bomb near Diraz park, detonating it and injuring two policemen.

Bahrain-based Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society said that the town of Diraz, west of the capital Manama, has completed on Monday 700 days of the siege imposed on the area.

Security authorities in Bahrain continued to ban the country's Shiite majority from holding their largest Friday prayers for the 90th consecutive week, through the continued siege imposed on Diraz village.

The Director-General of Criminal Investigation and Forensic Science announced the arrest of 7 people suspected of being involved in the arson attack on a police patrol at the entrance of Diraz on March 21 in which one policeman had sustained a minor injury.

Bahrain’s Ministry of Interior announced on its Twitter account that a police patrol caught fire at the entrance of Diraz area, without giving further details.

High Criminal Court of Appeals in Bahrain commuted sentence of defendant convicted of attempting to kill two police officers and two policemen in the Diraz area from life to 15 years prison.

Omani authorities handed over citizen Hussein Shehab from Diraz to Bahrain last Saturday.

The spiritual leader of the Shiite majority in Bahrain, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, underwent surgery Friday morning (February 2, 2018) at Ibn Al-Nafees hospital, a medical source said.

Security authorities in Bahrain continued to ban the country's Shiite majority from holding their largest Friday prayers for the 81th consecutive week, through the continued siege imposed on Diraz village.

A house in the town of Diraz near the residence of the spiritual leader of the Shiite majority in Bahrain, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, burst into flames, after the indiscriminate and heavy firing of Interior Ministry forces.

The New York Times newspaper said that Bahrain Embassy in Washington claimed that Sheikh Isa Qassim’s family had rejected an offer of an ambulance to take him to the hospital.

Security authorities in Bahrain prevented the country's Shiite majority from holding their largest Friday prayers for the 71th consecutive week, through the continued siege imposed on Diraz village.

The First High Appeals Court commuted the sentence of an appellant out of 3 appellants, whose ages ranges between 16 and 17, convicted to 3 years in prison, to one year in prison, over the charges of attempting to blast gas cylinder in Diraz Park.

The Fourth High Criminal Court handed down 3-year jail term to a suspect and 2-year jail term to another suspect in a case related to planting fake bomb on public street in Diraz and ordered the confiscation of seized items.

Bahraini Interior Ministry forces raided the headquarters of the Islamic Al-Tawiyah Society in Diraz, witnesses said on Wednesday (November 8, 2017).

Dozens of citizens took part in a protest that marched the streets of sieged Diraz following the afternoon prayers.

Hundreds of protestors took part in protests in different villages in Bahrain, demanding to lift the house arrest on the spiritual leader of Shia majority Sheikh Isa Qassim and release detainees and condemning children arrest.

Security authorities in Bahrain prevented the country's Shiite majority from holding their largest Friday prayers for the 66th consecutive week, banning Imam of Friday prayer and worshipers from entering Diraz.

The fourth high criminal court in Bahrain sentenced two defendants to life imprisonment for the murder of a young man (Sayed Ahmad Mousa) in Diraz and dumping his body in an empty area, and handed down to two others 5 and 3-year prison terms.