Bahraini security authorities arrested (Monday April 19, 2017) Imam of Al-Kheif mosque Sheikh Isa Al-Moamen in the town of al-Dair.

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.

The Bahraini Parliament approved in its Tuesday (April 11, 2017) session an urgent proposal to limit the travel of Bahraini youth to countries that pose a threat on Bahrain.

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

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.

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.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) expressed extreme concern regarding the large-scale citizenship revocations in Bahrain, and the continuous prosecution of Shiite clerics and rights activists.

US State Department released its annual report for 2016 on Human rights. In its country report on Bahrain, it shed light on the continued societal discrimination against the Shia citizens, and worsening human rights problems.

The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office issued an update to its report on the Bahrain situation, which included the period between July and December 2016.

Prominent detained Bahraini rights activist, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, confirmed that the conditions in “Jaw Central Prison” are similar to how they were before the March 10, 2015 events. He noted that the offices then responsible for the prison are still committing the same violations.

The first Minor Criminal Court scheduled February 7, 2016, to rule the sentence in the case of prominent Shiite cleric, Sheikh Bashar al-A’li, accused of insulting The Council of Representatives through an Instagram post.

The family of kidnapped Bahraini citizen, Sayed Alawi Sayed Hussein, denied receiving any call from the National Institute for Human Rights, contrary to a statement announced by the latter.

The Bahrain Forum for Human Rights said that the Bahraini authorities recently started creating “vexatious lawsuits against a group of politicians and rights activists to justify the travel ban against them before the international public opinion”.

The High Criminal Court adounred the trial of al-Wefaq’s figure Sheikh Hassan Isa, who is accused of funding a “terrorist group”.

Bahrain Forum for Human Rights said that the constant official prevention imposed by Bahraini authorities against the Shiite citizens’ right to perform their Friday prayer rituals.

A number of detained Shiite clerics in the Central Jaw Prison, said that introducing the personal status law by the authorities aims at “weakening the opposition, and pressuring it to abandon its legitimate demands and its popular movement.”

Social media users circulated a screenshot for a “WhatsApp” conversation, showing a text by deputy head of Bahrain’s Consultative Council, Jamal Fakhro, sending a picture for US model Jailyne Ojeda, and sent it as a complementary gift to the Bahrainis besieged in Diraz.

The Bahraini security forces summoned Shiite cleric and preacher, Sheikh Bashar al-A’li for investigations tomorrow.

Bahrain’s Appeals Court upheld a verdict ruling a 1-year imprisonment against arts director, Yasser Nasser, for taking part in the Diraz protest.

Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa said that his country is “the country where the rule of law is supreme, human dignity is safeguarded and rituals are protected.”