With a hunger strike by several hundred prisoners over conditions in Jaw prison in Bahrain now into its 24th day, we are deeply concerned for the wellbeing of those involved," the United Nations stated on Wednesday, August 30, 2023.

عبّرت الأمم المتحدة يوم الأربعاء 30 أغسطس آب 2023 عن قلقها البالغ حيال سلامة مئات من السجناء مع إضرابهم عن الطعام بسبب الأوضاع في سجن جَوْ المركزي في البحرين والذي دخل يومه الرابع والعشرين

Interior Minister Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa said on Monday that "the current visitation system and its development to increase the allotted durations as well as considerations for amending conditions related to the visitors' list were reviewed," but without mentioning the removal of the glass barrier.

The coordinating committee of the strike of political prisoners in Jaw Central Prison announced that "the proposed solutions, and what will be considered, do not meet the very necessary needs of the detainees," stressing that the Interior Ministry's statement "did not meet their very simple aspirations.

Mansour Khalaf, a political detainee in Jaw Central Prison, who is on hunger strike, was sexually harassed and his Shiite sect was insulted because he demanded his right to receive treatment for several diseases.

The director of Jaw Central Prison, Hisham Al-Zayani, ordered police at the prison to handcuff detainees on hunger strike from behind while transferring them to the infirmary, according to the director of the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD), Ahmed Al-Wadaei.

The Jaw Prison administration told the AFP that "all inmates have the right to non-violent protest," claiming that "additional care and advice have been afforded to them."

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani said that Iran gives much importance to its relations with Bahrain and that messages are being exchanged between the two countries and indirect negotiations are currently underway.

أعلنت اللجنة المنسِّقة لإضراب المعتقلين السياسيين في سجن جَوْ المركزي عن الطعام عن أنّ ما طُرِح من حلول وما سيتم النظر فيه لا يلبّي حاجات المعتقلين الضرورية جداً مشيرة إلى أنّ بيان وزارة الداخلية لم يرق إلى تطلعاتهم البسيطة جداً وهي لا تحتاج إلى التجزئة أو التدرُّج

قالت إدارة سجن جَوْ المركزي لوكالة الأنباء الفرنسية إنّه ‏يحق لجميع النزلاء السجناء الاحتجاج اللاعنفي زاعمة توفير الرعاية والمشورة الإضافية لهم

أمر مدير سجن جَوْ المركزي هشام الزياني الشرطة في السجن بتقييد المعتقلين المضربين عن الطعام من الخلف أثناء نقلهم إلى العيادة وفقاً لمدير مركز البحرين للحقوق والديمقراطية بيرد أحمد الوداعي

قال المتحدث الرسمي باسم وزارة الخارجية الإيرانية ناصر كنعاني إنّ إيران تولي أهمية لعلاقاتها مع البحرين في إطارها الخاص ويتم تبادل الرسائل وتستمر المحادثات غير المباشرة

The Wall Street Journal stated that political prisoner in Jaw Prison Ahmed Jaafar, who is on hunger strike, was verbally and physically abused by officers and police in prison and transferred to solitary confinement.

تعرّض المعتقل السياسي في سجن جَوْ المركزي منصور خلف المضرب عن الطعام لتحرّش جنسي وإهانات لمذهبه الشيعي لمطالبته بحقه في تلقّي العلاج من أمراض عدة

ذكرت صحيفة وول ستريت جورنال أنّ المعتقل السياسي في سجن جَوْ السياسي أحمد جعفر المضرب عن الطعام تعرّض لإهانات لفظية وجسدية من قِبَل ضباط وشرطة في السجن ونُقِل إلى الحبس الانفرادي

The number of political detainees in Jaw Central Prison on hunger strike on their 20th day has increased to 804, according to Ahmed Al-Wadaei, director of the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD).

Bahraini activists in diaspora announced that they go on a hunger strike on Tuesday, August 29, 2023, "in solidarity, support and advocacy for the oppressed political prisoners on hunger strike in Bahrain's prisons."

Sayed Abdullah Al-Ghuraifi stressed that "the homeland only becomes stable by approaching crises with wisdom, awareness and insight," pointing out that "the unemployment crisis confuses the homeland and prisons' overcrowding worsens the paths and complaints of detainees need to be seriously addressed."

The Friday preacher of the Imam Sadiq Mosque in Diraz Sheikh Mohammad Sanqour, said that "the prisoners' cause is still a pending issue, despite the fact that it is a purely humanitarian cause," hoping that "it is addressed as the homeland deserves that we strive to take the path that'll overcome its pain and that of its people."