An off-duty policeman was shot dead in Bahrain on Sunday in what the interior ministry called a “terrorist act”, state news agency BNA reported, according to Reuters.

International expressed last Friday (January 27, 2017) its grave concerns that Bahraini detainee Sayed Alawi Moussawi is a victim of enforced disappearance and is at risk of torture and other ill-treatment.

Thousands of angry protestors took to the streets on Sunday (January 29, 2017) on the eve of the new court hearing of Sheikh Isa Qassim over charge of managing Khums (Shiite religious ritual) money.

Bahrain’s clerics hailed on Sunday (January 29, 2017) the Bahraini people for their response to the shrouds protests, on the eve of the new court hearing of the highest religious Shiite authority in Bahrain, Sheikh Isa Qassim, in a show of support and readiness to sacrifice their lives for Sheikh Isa's sake.

Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa praised the high-level of combat readiness of the National Guard and hailed the roles of its members in maintaining the homeland's security and stability.

Bahrain’s Foreign Affairs Minister Khalid bin Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa expressed on Sunday (January 29, 2017) his support to the American President, Donald Trump’s measures regarding the immigrants, which sparked a wave of criticism inside and outside America.

Seven human rights organizations expressed their concern at the Bahraini authorities move to disperse Diraz protest by force, indicating that this would lead to a catastrophe, calling on the international institutions and human rights organizations to follow up the humanitarian situation in Diraz.”

The Interior Ministry announced on Sunday (January 29, 2017) the death of one of its officer who was shot dead in Bilad Al-Qadeem.

Former Secretary-General of the National Democratic Action Society (Wa’ad) told Al-Wasat newspaper that “besieging Diraz since more than 200 days is a painful to residents of Diraz, whom we applaud their patience and determination to continue living their lives.”

Sheikh Abdullah Daqaq, Sheikh Isa Qassim's Representative in Iran, stressed on the peacefulness of shrouds protests that the Bahraini scholars called to stage on Sunday (January 29, 2016), deeming them a duty to defend the nation and religion.

The Bahraini Al-Wasat newspaper said on Saturday (January 28, 2017) that the Ministry of Interior deployed more policemen at different entrances of Diraz.

Bahrain’s scholar said in a statement on Friday (January 27, 2017) that the attack carried on by civilian forces on Diraz is “an intended crime of murder committed at the orders of officials. King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa and the British security administration bear full responsibility for this crime and the security and sectarian chaos.”

Information reported (Sunday January 29, 2017) that an Interior Ministry officer was killed in a farm in Bilad al Qadeem, as a result of shooting.

Bahraini daily newspaper al-Wasat, said that the final account of the state in 2015 showed that the sum of salaries designated for foreign workers in the government, adds up to 133 million dinars.

The Bahrain Human Rights Society said it followed up the incident of masked civilian armed forces attacking protesters staged near Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim's house in Diraz, on Thursday dawn (January 26, 2017).

Bahrain's rank witnessed a dramatic setback by 20 ranks in Transparency International's 2016 Corruption Perceptions Index. It came in the 70th rank internationally, after it was in the 50th place in the 2015 index.

Indian official, Director General Overseas Recruitment Agency of Telangana, in the Republic of India, K. Bhavani, visited Bahrain to discuss the delayed paychecks for Iranian workers in a construction company and investigate the death of an Indian worker by a teargas canister.

Information reported that the young men who were detained by civilian armed forces on the dawn of Thursday (January 26, 2017), informed their families that they are held in the Criminal Investigations Department building.

Customs President Ahmed bin Hamad Al Khalifa said that most confiscated goods in one of its borderlines are drugs, especially weed, in addition to “paan”, which is banned in Bahrain.

A Bahraini court sentenced a Bahraini girl to 1-year in prison after convicting her of smuggling “weed” to her brother, who is imprisoned in “Jaw” Central Prison, according to what a local newspaper reported Friday January 27, 2017.