The Third Minor Criminal Court sentenced a citizen to one month in jail over vandalizing an election billboard of a candidate. The court replaced the sentence with binding the suspect to not approach any of the candidates' billboards and fined him 200 BD for the charge attributed to him. It also bind him to pay 236 BD, value of the damaged billboard, for the candidate.

The High Appeals Court rejected the appeal of 4 defendants convicted of manufacturing a hoax bomb and putting it in Al-Budai street near Diraz. The court upheld the 3-year jail term issued against the 3 appellants and rejected that appeals of the 4th appellant.

Hundreds of citizens took part in angry protests rejecting the life sentence issued by the appeals court against opposition leader and Al-Wefaq secretary-general Sheikh Ali Salman. Protestors also condemned the government’s normalization attempts with Israel.

The Fourth High Criminal Court sentenced two children to 3 years in jail over assembling in Diraz and acquiring Molotov, and fined each of them to 500 BD.

The High Appeals Court upheld a 3-year jail term against suspect (22 years) accused of planting a fake bomb in Al-Budai, upheld a 3-year jail term against his companion (20 years) and ordered the confiscation of seized items.

The Third Bahraini Minor Criminal Court acquitted a Bahraini child of the charge of Molotov cocktail possession due to lack of evidence, while sentencing him to one month in jail for his participation in an assembly.

Hundreds of citizens took part in peaceful protests calling for boycott of Parliamentary and municipal elections organized by the authorities next month.

The First High Criminal Court in Bahrain adjourned the trial of 171 defendants, accused of involvement in an open sit-in outside the home of the spiritual leader of the Shiite majority in Bahrain, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, in what has become known as the "Diraz Raid."

The Bahraini authorities arrested on Monday (September 10, 2018) at dawn Sayed Ali Sayed Mahdi (14 years) after raiding his house in Diraz.

The Bahraini authorities arrested at the early hours of Monday (September 10, 2018) 5 children after wide raid campaigns in Diraz.

The Bahraini security authorities arrested a youth, who was injured in Diraz attack in May 2017, at a checkpoint.

Residents of Diraz expressed their rejection of the Ministry of Justice's attempt to nominate a preacher for the Imam Sadiq Mosque in Diraz (the largest Shiite mosque in Bahrain), demanding "to lift their grip from this religious rite.”

Dozens of citizens took part in a protest after the noon prayers on Friday (July 20, 2018) in Diraz, in solidarity with Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim.

The Bahrain Forum for Human Rights (BFHR) said that ending the security siege on the Shiite Diraz village, resided by over 20 thousand citizens, which lasted nearly 750 days does not eliminate the right to hold individuals accountable.

Eyewitnesses said that the security authorities lifted the siege imposed on Diraz village, hometown of spiritual leader of Shia majority Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, after about 25 months.

The High Appeals Court upheld a 10-year jail term against 9 suspects accused of setting an armored vehicle affiliated with the Interior Ministry to fire, assembling and acquiring Molotov.

The first Bahraini High Court of Appeal upheld a life sentence against three appellants, as well as upholding a five-year prison sentence of another, all convicted in the case involving a bomb blast and attempted murder of police in Al-Diraz in 2014.

The Fourth High Criminal Court handed down 3-year jail term to a suspect and 1-year jail term to 8 others accused of burning tires in Diraz.

The Fourth High Criminal Court sentenced 9 protestors to prison terms ranging between 3 and 9 years over attacking police patrol in Diraz using Molotov cocktails.

Traffic Prosecution President Hussain Al-Buali said that the traffic prosecution started its investigation in the case of a video that went viral on social media outlets on June 4, 2018, showing a hit-an-run accident.