Thousands of mourners took part in a funeral procession held in the Bahraini capital Manama on Tuesday (March 22, 2016) for the prominent Bahraini Shiite cleric Sayed Jawad Al-Wedai.

The Secretary-General of Lebanon's Hezbollah, Sayed Hassan Nasrallah categorically denied that Hezbollah interfered in Bahrain by arming or training any opponents of the Bahraini regime.

One of Bahrain's prominent Shiite clerics, Sayed Jawad Al-Wedai passed away on Monday (March 21, 2016) after a struggle with illness.

The Acting Director General of the Reformation and Rehabilitation Centre said the sentences against her include a one-year jail term for insulting a public employee in 2013, a two-month sentence for deliberate sabotage in 2014 and another two months over another separate case.

Michel Forst, the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, demanded the release of the human rights defender, Zainab Al Khawaja and her one-year-old baby.

The Bahraini Ministry of Labour stated that it recorded 7,077 cases of arbitrary dismissals since 2010 until 2015 in the Bahraini private sector.

The United States Department of State was confronted with questions raised about human rights activist Zainab Al-Khawaja's arrest for fourth consecutive time.

Lawyer Youssef Rabie' stated that the head of the Religious Freedoms Department of The Bahrain Human Rights Observatory (BHRO), Sheikh Maytham Al-Salman, left a police station, after he was summoned over a religious sermon he had delivered last November (2015).

The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Sayed Ali Khamenei, stated that the United States wants the Iranians to back down from "supporting the oppressed people in Bahrain."

Bahrain Mirror (AFP): Human Rights Watch called on Bahrain on Sunday to stop deporting citizens after stripping them of their nationality, two days before a hearing that could lead to the expulsion of another nine.

Bahrain Mirror (AP): A United Nations expert has called on Bahrain to release an activist recently detained along with her year-old son in the island kingdom.

Bahrain Mirror (AP): Bahraini authorities have released Salah al-Khawaja, the brother of human rights advocate Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, after five years in jail in a case related to Bahrain's uprising in 2011.

The Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) stated that it is deeply troubled by the arrest of human rights defender, Zainab Al Khawaja, further expressing concern over the citizenship law, enabling the Bahrain government to revoke the citizenship of activists, as well as the imposed travel bans.

Member of Bahrain's Special Investigation Unit (SIU), Mohammad Khaled Al-Hazaa, stated that the Second Minor Criminal Court acquitted a police officer of the charge of assaulting the bodily integrity of a prisoner on Thursday (March 17, 2016).

Bahrain’s High Criminal Court sentenced a youth to one year in prison after convicting him over charges of setting trash cans ablaze in the Bahraini capital, Manama, joining assembly and having possession of Molotov cocktails.

The local Bahraini Akhbar Al-Khaleej newspaper that has close ties with the Prime Minister said that hundreds of Bahrainis working in the banking sector have lost their jobs in the past few months due to the international economic situation.

The Bahraini Public Prosecution said that it received a report from the Capital Governorate Police Directorate about the arrest of "a person who has possession of publications and photos that promote the terrorist Hezbollah group and its Secretary-General."

The Foreign Affairs, Defense and National Security Committee of the Bahraini parliament agreed upon a proposal to have the government establish a security apparatus, whose duty is to protect the airplanes of Gulf Air from hijacking and terrorist acts.

The local Bahraini Al-Bilad newspaper reported that the Bahraini authorities seized three tons of rotten meat at Bahrain's International Airport.

In an open letter, 153 medical professionals, including two medical organisations, with Amnesty International called for Dr 'Ali al-'Ekri's immediate release on the fifth anniversary of his arrest for treating injured protesters and criticisng the excessive force used by the armed forces against them.