Bahraini regime security forces raided the open protest site held in Diraz at around 3 am, a scene similar to that which took place 6 years ago at the dawn of the bloody Thursday (February 17, 2011).

Civilian forces attacked on Thursday (January 26, 2017) protestors outside the house of the highest religious authority in Bahrain, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim. It is to mention that this is the second attack carried out against Diraz protest.

Police in Bahrain carried out a dawn raid Thursday against supporters of a Shiite cleric on trial in the Sunni-ruled kingdom during which one man was shot and wounded, witnesses said.

Security forces wearing black ski masks clashed with protesters near the home of a prominent Shiite cleric in Bahrain early Thursday, activists said.

Family of Mostafa Hamadan (17 years) who was injured in Diraz attack is still under anaesthesia and artificial ventilation. The bullet is still lodged in his skull. Doctors couldn’t extract the bullet due to Hamdan’s young age and body weakness.

Information from Jaw Central Prison revealed that there is significant deterioration in political prisoners’ conditions, especially in building number 10 in which some of its detainees were tortured and put in solitary confinement.

Information revealed that the health condition of Mostafa Hamdan (18 years) is unstable. Hamdan was injured in Diraz attack and he is now in the intensive care unit in Al-Salmaniya Medical Complex under general anesthesia.

Haq movement condemned the attack carried out by the Bahraini authorities against the protestors in Diraz field, stressing that this is a heinous crime committed amid international silence.

Two United Nations human rights experts have appealed today to the Government of Bahrain to spare the lives of Mohammad Ramadan and Hussein Moosa, who are at risk of imminent execution, and to ensure a re-trial of the defendants in compliance with international standards.

Bahraini courts ruled Wednesday (January 25, 2017) in favor of prison sentences against 3 parents of martyrs, who were shot dead during the ongoing pro-democracy protests in Bahrain.

Index and Censorship called on Bahrain to immediately drop all charges against Nabeel Rajab.

They are afraid of you although you are lying in your grave. They are haunted by your words that hurt their tyranny.

Member of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI), British Professor, Sir Nigel Simon Rodley, passed away Wednesday (January 25, 2017).

In addition to statements of praise, leasing a Trump hotel ballroom for 100,000 US dollars seems like an attempt by the Kingdom of Bahrain to curry favor with the new US administration.

Kuwait hanged a prince in the ruling Al-Sabah family on Wednesday for premeditated murder, state news agency KUNA reported, in what appeared to be the first execution of a member of the royal family in the Gulf state.

Bahrain’s First High Criminal Court adjourned the case of 23-year-old youth accused of joining ISIS, acquiring arms and publishing false news until February 22, to summon the attesting witnesses.

The British Reprieve Organization published a petition on its website saying that “we have to do everything we can to save the man who may be next Mohammed Ramadan after the authorities executed on Sunday (January 15) three men – the first executions in the country for six years.”

UK Members of Parliament called on the British Foreign Office to file a complaint against the Bahraini government, and to call for an investigations into torture in the Kingdom. They also demanded their government to interfere concerning the death sentences of Mohammad Ramadan and Hussein Ali Moussa.

Amnesty International criticized the postponement of Nabeel Rajab’s trial for the 6th time, in a statement issued on its official website.

Kuwait's foreign minister will make a rare visit to Tehran on Wednesday to deliver a message to President Hassan Rouhani on a "basis of dialogue" between Gulf Arab states and arch-rival Iran, Kuwait's state news agency reported.