It’s been 5 years since the United Nations issued 176 recommendations to the Government of Bahrain to reform the deteriorating human rights status. Bahrain has been a country full of torture, killing, labor dismissals and sectarian persecution.

Bahraini clerics said that 300 days have passed since the police imposed a siege on Diraz, following the open-ended sit-in that was launched in protest against the revocation of Sheikh Isa Qassim’s citizenship and putting him on trial.

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.

The reciter Mahdi Sahwan said in a phone call that he is still held in custody at the Hamad Town police station for unknown reasons, and that he hasn’t yet been transferred to Jaw Prison to serve his sentence.

Security Authorities released 4 Shiite clerics after interrogating them over taking part in the mourning events in memory of an Iraqi religious scholar.

Lawyer Reem Khalaf said that a Bahraini court upheld a 6-month jail term against eulogy citer Mahdi Sahwan over taking part in Diraz protest

Protesters completed their 290 days of open sit-in outside the house of the Shiite majority spiritual leader, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, in the Bahraini town of Diraz.

Salam Organization for Democracy and Human Rights said that the authorities had revoked the citizenships of 410 Bahrainis, for political reasons, noting that among them 15 are Shiite religious clerics.

The Bahraini court of cassation overturned on Monday (April 3, 2017) a verdict issued by appeals court sentencing the opposition leader and Al-Wefaq Secretary-General to 9 years in prison.

The Al-Wasat newspaper said that the security forces blocked on Thursday (March 30, 2017) Diraz entrance facing Barbar village and allowed the entrance of students and teachers only, noting that this entrances is one of the two through which residents are allowed to reach Diraz.

Youth Mostafa Hamdan (17 years) who was injured in Diraz martyred today (March 24, 2017) after spending about two months in the hospital due to a gunshot he sustained, after forces affiliated to security forces opened fire at protesters outside Sheikh Isa Qassim’s house in Diraz on January 26, 2017.

My challenge is clear to the authorities. The opposition wants dialogue and has consistently said this on a regular basis for the past six years.

Bahrain head towards a crossroad between the royal family and the Shiite majority population on the eve of religious leader, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim’s Trial.

Was the plea entered by the Bahraini Public Prosecution really a judicial plea or a babbly speech delivered by a Takfiri extremist on a platform of hatred?!

Daily sufferings of Diraz residents continue due to the siege imposed by the security authorities since June 2016.

Sheikh Maytham Al-Salman, Head of Religious Freedom Unit in BHRO, said that the majority of Bahraini citizens (Shia) are subjected to systematic violations over their religion, according to the Special Rapporteurs reports and that of the US Department of States and European Union, stating that 65% of the citizens are being persecuted.

The Office of Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) hosted a panel at the Russell US Senate Office Building on the sixth anniversary of Bahrain’s pro-democracy uprising.

Al-Wefaq Society said that the Bahraini regime’s crossing the line through any measure adopted against Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, will lead the country into the unknown, and into a dark tunnel.

Bahrain’s scholars said on Tuesday (February 28, 2017) that the public prosecution’s demand to issue the harshest sentences against Shiite leader Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim for performing one of the sect’s rituals “threatens the sect and targets its rituals and beliefs.”

Angry demonstrations took to the streets of various Bahraini areas, on the eve of the February 14 revolution’s 6th anniversary.