Bahraini and international human rights organizations sent a letter to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, H.E. Zeid Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein, urging him to call on the Government of Bahrain to immediately and unconditionally release detained human rights defender Nabeel Rajab and drop the charges against him.

Violence and protests escalated in Bahrain on Wednesday (December 21, 2016) after clashes broke out between the regime forces and protestors outside the Shiite majority religious leader Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim’s house.

Bahraini regime forces clashed on Wednesday (December 21, 2016) with protestors in Sitra Island southeast of the capital, Manama.

Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression David Kaye called on Wednesday (December 21, 2016) for Nabeel Rajab’s immediate release.

The Director-General of Anti-corruption and Economic & Electronic Security has announced that the Cyber Crime Directorate has identified an article in French newspaper 'Le Monde' quoting Nabeel Rajab. The article contained false and malicious information and rumors that defamed Bahrain and other GCC countries in an attempt to harm their interests.

A jailed activist in Bahrain on trial for allegedly spreading "false news" is being investigated over a letter published in his name by a French newspaper, authorities said Thursday, the second such probe into his writings in recent months.

Bahrain’s Ministry of Interior said on Wednesday (December 21, 2016) that it arrested a number of wanted in some villages and searched their houses.

Human Rights Watch said that the Bahraini authorities held a telecommunications engineer incommunicado for five weeks without access to a lawyer or his family. The authorities failed to provide accurate information on the whereabouts of the engineer, Sayed Alawi, from his arrest on October 24, 2016, until November 27.

Bahraini authorities say they have interrogated detained opposition leader Nabil Rajab for spreading "false information" in an article published in French daily Le Monde that accused Gulf monarchies of fomenting "extremism".

Police in Bahrain on Wednesday clashed with protesters supporting a top Shiite cleric who has been stripped of his citizenship and is on trial in the Sunni-ruled kingdom, activists said.

Police in Bahrain briefly clashed with residents of a besieged town that is home to a Shiite cleric on Wednesday, arresting at least two youths before withdrawing from the area, witnesses and activists said.

Bahraini security forces clashed with supporters of the country's Shi'ite Muslim spiritual leader near his home on Wednesday, activists said.

Social media activists published photos showing thousands of citizens outside the house of the spiritual leader of Shia majority Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim.

Heavily armed forces raided Diraz village where thousands of Bahrainis have been protesting since 6 months outside the house of the spiritual leader of Shia majority Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim.

Trainees in the Municipal Affairs, known as the “1912 list”, will know their career future after 10 days, on whether they will remain in their current jobs or their file will be referred to the department of employment in the Ministry of Labor and Social Development as unemployed

The Al-Wasat local newspaper said that the residents of Diraz village resorted to nearby villages after the authorities had prevented the drinking water trucks from entering the village to supply it with water.

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) said that the Bahraini authorities have isolated two men from the outside world since about 3 months.

MEPs called on Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, to take rapid actions to put an end to human rights violations in Bahrain.

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) recorded 22 arbitrary arrests, including 5 children between 12-18 December, adding that none of the arrested was released.

Bahrain condemned on Monday (December 19, 2016) in the strongest terms the armed attack on the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Turkey and led to his death, stressing that “the terrorist act is a serious crime aimed at damaging relations between countries”.