The Bahraini court sentenced on Thursday (October 12, 2017) prominent Shiite cleric and former Al-Wefaq MP, Sheikh Hamza Al-Dairy, to one year in prison over taking part in Diraz protest.

The Bahraini authorities continued their security campaign today (Tuesday, October 10, 2017) morning and arrested each of Mahdi Ahmad Muftah and Ali Mohammad Jaafar from Diraz village, after forcibly breaking into their houses.

The Bahraini security authorities released eulogy reciter Mahdi Sahwan on Saturday (October 7, 2017), after serving 6 months in prison for participating in the Diraz open sit-in.

The Deputy Prosecutor in the Anti-Terror Crime Prosecution, Khalid Al Tameemi, said that the Public Prosecution has completed the investigations into a terrorist explosion that killed one policemen and injured two others in Diraz on June 18.

Security authorities in Bahrain continued their siege on Diraz village and continued preventing the country's Shiite majority from holding their largest Friday prayers for the 64th consecutive week.

The Sixth High Appeals Court upheld sentencing 3 appellants to life in prison. The suspects are accused of attempted murder of 2 officers and 2 other policemen in Diraz, after alluring the policemen to a place where they planted a locally made bomb.

The Fourth High Criminal Court decided to postpone the case of 4 suspects accused of the murder of Ahmad Mousa, 18 years, in Diraz, due to torture, claiming he cooperates with the police, until October 17.

Families of detainees held at Central Jaw prison said that they had lost contact with their sons nine days ago, i.e. since the political prisoners began an open hunger strike to protest against dire prison conditions.

Security authorities in Bahrain prevented the country’s Shiite majority from holding their largest Friday prayers for a 60th consecutive week, by continuing to impose a siege on the town of Diraz.

Mass demonstrations were held in Al-Daraz and different areas across Bahrain Thursday night (September 7, 2017), in protest of the siege imposed on the Diraz region.

Bahraini security authorities continued to set up more concrete barriers on Friday (September 1, 2017) in the town of Diraz, which has suffered a strict siege for more than 14 months.

The security authorities continued their heavy security presence outside the house of spiritual leader of Shia majority Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim marking 100 days of his house arrest.

The security authorities continued to impose more restrictions on residents of Diraz that has been suffering from tight siege since June 2016 and placed more cement barriers inside the village.

It has been three full months since the spiritual leader of Bahrain's Shiite majority, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, was put under house arrest.

The Bahraini security authorities have continued to prevent the Shia majority from performing their largest Friday prayer in the Imam Al-Sadiq mosque in Diraz for the 57th consecutive week.

Activists on social media outlets expressed their concerns over health of spiritual leader of Shia majority, Sheikh Isa Qassim, who is still being under house arrest since May 23, 2017. Bahrain: Con

Bahrain Forum for Human Rights (BFHR) said that the security authorities are still placing Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim under house arrest in Diraz. This security harassment has been going on for more than 70 days.

Bahraini authorities closed the main entrance to Al-Diraz, where the country's highest Shiite religious authority, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim resides under house arrest.

Bahraini Interior Ministry turned main entrance to town of Diraz into a “restricted area.”

The Bahraini authorities released on Thursday (August 3, 2017) Shiite cleric Sayed Ali Ahmad after serving one year jail term over the background of Diraz protest.