Stanford University called on Bahraini authorities to release travel ban on Sheikh Maytham Al-Salman.

The head of the Religious Freedoms Department at the Bahrain Human Rights Observatory, Sheikh Maytham Al-Salman, said that the Bahraini authorities released the prominent Shiite cleric and president of the (dissolved) Islamic Scholars Council, Sayed Majeed Al-Mesh'al, after interrogation.

Lawyer Youssef Rabie' stated that the head of the Religious Freedoms Department of The Bahrain Human Rights Observatory (BHRO), Sheikh Maytham Al-Salman, left a police station, after he was summoned over a religious sermon he had delivered last November (2015).

Bahrain Mirror: The Bahraini Public Prosecution summoned on Tuesday (January 5, 2016) the Secretary-General of Wa’ad Society Radhi Al-Musawi, head of Al-Wefaq’s Shura Sayed Jameel Kadhem, and the Chairman of the Religious Freedom Committee in Bahrain Observatory Sheikh Maytham Al-Salman for interrogation on Wednesday.

Bahrain Mirror: Sheikh Maytham Al-Salman, head of the religious freedom department of the Bahrain Observatory for Human Rights, said that more than 17 figures have been summoned, including preachers, clerics and lecturers in addition to obsequies administrators and organizing committees for Ashura events.

Bahrain Mirror: Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace (ICUJP) announced that it issued its 2015 Advocate for Peace Award to Sheikh Maytham Al-Salman, head of religious freedom unit at Bahrain Human Rights Observatory.