Bahrain's public prosecution said on Sunday (March 12, 2017) that it detained the custodian of the Zahraa (as) Mosque in Hamad City for 7 days pending investigations, after he submitted fake notice.

Lawyer Abdullah Al-Shamlawi, one of Bahrain's senior lawyers, said on his Twitter account that the National Action Charter of Bahrain and Constitution regulated Khums as a religious ritual that is not subjected to regulation of law. He explained that article 3 "Freedom of Beleif" of chapter One "Basic principles of the society" stipulates "The state ensures freedom of belief. Freedom of conscience shall be absolute. The state maintains inviolability of houses of worship and guarantees freedom to practice religious rites according to considered custom of the land." Besides, Article 22 of the Constitution stipulates "Freedom of conscience is absolute. The State shall guarantee the inviolability of places of worship and the freedom to perform religious rites and to hold religious processions and meetings in accordance with the customs observed in the country."

The Shura Council unanimously approved in its session on Sunday (March 12, 2017) a decree law amending provisions of establishing the National Institution for Human Rights.

Detainees in Dry Dock Prison said that the state’s security apparatus returned detainee Abu Al-Fadel Al-Qashaami to his prison cell three days earlier, after no one knew anything about him.

National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR)'s vice president Abdullah Al-Dirazi said that the institution will submit its report that is similar to the convention against torture to the competent commission at the end of March, and that the commission will discuss Bahrain’s periodic report at the end of April, indicating that the institution presented its report about Bahrain in the framework of the universal periodic review mechanism on September 20, 2016.

Sheikh Abdullah Daqaq, Sheikh Isa Qassim's Representative, warned the Bahraini authorities that the arrest of Sheikh Isa Qassim will lead to bloodbath in Bahrain.

To be part of the equation is a tough decision,” this is how the consultant orthopedic surgeon Dr. Ali Al-Ekri, speaks of the stance he took, costing him a hefty price.

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) said it is deeply concerned about the recent alarming increase in the use of incommunicado detention by the Bahraini authorities.

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.

A Saudi child sustained critical injury today (Saturday March 11, 2017) after Saudi forces raises an old neighborhood in the Al-Awamiyah town in the Eastern Saudi province of Qatif.

A prominent Bahraini doctor jailed for five years in connection with the 2011 Arab Spring uprising for democracy was released from prison on Friday, a lawyer and witness said.

Amnesty International issued a report on Tuesday calling on the King of Bahrain to refrain from ratifying a constitutional amendment that would enable military courts to try civilians, paving the way to further human rights violations.

US magazine “Newsweek” said that rights groups condemned on Monday the decision of the Bahraini Parliament a day earlier to approve military trials for civilians as a “disaster for human rights” in the Gulf Kingdom.

Tensions escalate in Bahrain as the trial of Bahrain’s high religious authority, Sheikh Isa Qassim, approaches. Sheikh Qassim is tried over the management of the Shiite sect Khums ritual.

Al-Wefaq Society, along with other Arab and Lebanese movements, launched on Thursday (March 9, 2017) in Beirut, the book “A Plea of a Country” (Arabic version).

The Second High Court of Appeal upheld a ruling to fine a 57-year-old Bahraini over insulting a journalist at Al-Watan Newspaper, Mona Al-Mtawaa’.

King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa issued Royal Order 17/2017 specifying the terms and conditions for appointment of members of the National Institution of Human Rights (NIHR) board of commissioners.

The Bahraini security forces released on Friday (March 10, 2017) the consultant orthopedic surgeon Dr. Ali Al-Ekri, after serving his 5-year jail term sentence.

The central committee in the National Democratic Action Society “Wa'ad” rejected the accusations raised by the ministry of justice against the society and considered them among the steps that target the freedom of political action in Bahrain and confront the political and economic reform attempts followed by Wa’ad.

Labour MP in House of Commons of the United Kingdom Emily Thornberry asked the British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, on March 6, 2017, about the UK Government's policy regarding the proposed Swiss statement at the UN Human Rights Council on Bahrain; and if he is to issue a statement.