Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, largest political opposition society in Bahrain, launched an urgent appeal calling on the international community to interfere to stop the security attack, which it described as “massacre”, taking place in Bahrain now.

Youth Mohammad Kadhem Zainuldine (39 years) martyred after receiving gunshots by the forces affiliated to the ministry of interior while raiding Diraz village, where thousands are protesting outside Sheikh Isa Qassim’s house.

Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society confirmed in a statement that the regime is leading Bahrain into a new crisis believed to be the biggest and widest.

Deputy Secretary General of Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, Sheikh Hussein al-Daihi said that what happened in the past 6 years left a deep wound, but what happened today after the verdict against Sheikh Isa Qassim will cause "a political, social, and religious earthquake."

Bahraini scholars issued a statement calling on the men and women of the country to fill mosques in all regions in Bahrain on Saturday night (May 20, 2017), on the eve of scheduled trial of Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim on Sunday (May 21, 2017).

A leading Bahraini human rights activist was denied bail on Tuesday on charges of writing an editorial critical of the government, a pro-opposition rights group reported.

Sayed Abbas Shubar, Head of Religious Freedoms Unit in Bahrain SALAM for Human Rights, said that no one knows the destiny of the prominent Shiite cleric Sheikh Abdulzahraa Al-Karbabadi since he was arrested on April 28 in a house raid carried out by forces affiliated to the Ministry of Interior.

Activists on social media outlets called for massive protests today, on the eve of the sentence hearing of spiritual leader for Shiite majority, Sheikh Isa Qassim.

The “Defense One” website specialized in American military affairs said that the move taken by the Trump administration and represented by removing human rights conditions from a multibillion-dollar F-16 sale to Bahrain is likely to have severe repercussions for American interests in the Middle East.

Montenegro welcomed the invitation extended to UN High Commissioner to visit Bahrain, stating that the visit should include Shiite villages. Meanwhile, South Korea demanded the Bahraini Government to proceed in the dialogue to face challenges and recommended it to accept the visit of UN Special Rapporteurs to the country.

The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) stressed that the religious freedom for the majority-Shi’a community deteriorated, stating that there was a sharp increase in the number of interrogations, arrests, convictions, and arbitrary detentions of Shi’a Muslim clerics, in particular most senior Shi’a cleric in Bahrain, Sheikh Isa Qassim, whose citizenship was arbitrarily stripped by authorities in June.

Activists on Twitter said that the Bahraini authorities arrested Shiite cleric and his wife at the dawn today from his house in Karbabad, noting that reasons behind the arrest are unknown.

The Al-Wasat local newspaper published a summary of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) report which placed Bahrain on its Tier 2 rank on terms of religious freedoms. Bahrain was covered in the Other Countries Monitored section of the 2017 Annual Report, as a consequence of deteriorating conditions of religious freedoms.

A court in Bahrain Tuesday jailed 36 Shiites convicted of forming a “terrorist” group to attack police, and stripped them of their citizenship, a judicial source said. Three of those sentenced received life terms, while the rest were jailed for between three and 10 years, the source said.

Activists on social media outlets said that the Bahraini security authorities summoned for interrogation Sheikh Mohammad Al-Mansi, who is in charge of the demolished mosques' file at the Ulama Islamic Council.

Senior Bahraini clerics stressed that they continue to demand constitutional guarantees that protect family law, an issue not yet made available.

Khalid bin Al Khalifa, Minister of Justice, Islamic Affairs and Endowment, said that the ministry stated that the ministry has begun studying the proposal submitted by the Shura Council to the Cabinet to issue a unified family law in the light of studies based on realistic issues and actual needs and in consultation with the Supreme Judicial Council.

Index on Censorship said in an article it published on its website the Farida Ghulam, the wife of Ebrahim Sharif, the former secretary-general of Bahraini opposition group National Democratic Action Society (Wa’ad), has written an open letter to political and human rights institutions worldwide calling for solidarity against the dissolution of Wa’ad.

Amnesty International called on its website for an urgent action to “urge the Bahraini authorities to quash the conviction of leader Sheikh Ali Salman, the Secretary General of Bahrain’s main opposition party Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, and to release him immediately and unconditionally,” after the court of cassation reduced the nine-year prison sentence against him to four years.

The Bahraini authorities summoned on Tuesday (April 11, 2017) 3 Shiite clerics for interrogation tomorrow (Wednesday) without giving them any explanations.