The United Nations expressed concerns about reports from Bahrain stating that a protestor was killed at the hands of the security forces in the village of Diraz that has been witnessing an open-ended sit-in since June 2016, calling on the authorities to investigate the killing incident.

Bahraini police raid on the hometown of a prominent Shiite cleric facing possible deportation has left at least five demonstrators dead and 286 people arrested in an assault in which officers fired tear gas and shotguns at protesters.

Five people were killed in Bahrain on Tuesday when police opened fire on a protest by supporters of a top cleric in a Shiite village, the interior ministry said, in the latest unrest to hit the Sunni-ruled Gulf state.

Clashes broke out between demonstrators and Bahraini regime forces in several areas across Bahrain. Shops were closed in many villages, as youths set tires ablaze, blocking a number of streets.

How did the demonstrators react to yesterday’s verdict? What is their response to the Interior Ministry’s notices? Will they end their sit-in after an entire year of protesting in the square opposite to Ayatollah Qassim’s house?

Bahrain was struck by deep security turmoil today morning (Tuesday May 23, 2017) after authorities raises the town of Diraz, home to the country’s Shiite majority spiritual leader, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim.

Yemen’s Ansarullah stated that any security operation targeting the spiritual leader of Bahrain's Shiite majority, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, “will not have favorable consequences.”

: Bahrain police on Tuesday opened fire on a long-running sit-in in support of a leading Shiite cleric in the Sunni-ruled Gulf state, hit by years of unrest.

Bahrain's interior ministry said it had launched a security operation on Tuesday in the home village of the country's Shi'ite Muslim spiritual leader, the site of a sit-in encampment of his followers.

Bahrain police say they’ve launched an operation targeting a town where a sit-in has been going on for months supporting a prominent Shiite cleric who had his citizenship stripped by the government.

Bahrain witnessed today Sunday many angry protests denouncing the court’s sentence issued against religious leader Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, over charges of managing the Shiite religious Khums ritual.

Information reported that the Ministry of Interior summoned on Sunday the heads of Diraz-based obsequies, and asked them to intervene to disperse the sit-in crowd outside the house of Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim.

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).

Bahraini prosecutors and security officials should cease harassing journalists and should lift travel bans imposed on two reporters in the past week, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said in a statement issued Monday (May 1, 2017).

The security authorities continued to summon activists to interrogations in a vast campaign that targeted dozens and aimed at imposing travel bans on them in a time that coincides with the UPR session to review Bahrain’s human rights portfolio in Geneva.

The Public Prosecution charged Sunday (April 23, 2017) a number of activists whom it had summoned, with illegal assembly in Diraz.

The Executive Director of the Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Khaled al-Ruwaihi promised that his chamber will convene with business owners whose businesses were affected by the Diraz siege.

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.

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.