Bahrain Mirror: Bahraini security forces arrested the former Bahraini Member of Parliament and Shiite Cleric, Sheikh Hasan Isa at the Bahrain International Airport on Tuesday night (August 18, 2015), as he returned from a private trip with his family.

Bahrain's main opposition party, Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, stated that Sheikh Hasan Isa was taken to the Criminal Investigation Directorate (CID) in Al-Adliya, yet, the reasons for his arrest remained unknown, even after being in custody for more than 9 hours. Al-Wefaq added that no information was given about him since then and called for his immediate release.

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