Prisoner of conscience Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja announced on Wednesday, August 9, 2023, launching hunger strike in solidarity with the political detainees who are on hunger strike in Jaw Central Prison.

Bahrain prison inmates are taking part in a hunger strike over conditions there, activists and authorities said Wednesday, the latest sign of simmering unrest in the island kingdom a decade after the Arab Spring.

"Their Right", a human rights organization which specializes in defending prisoners of conscience in Egypt, yesterday accused the Egyptian authorities of disappearing two citizens who were detained in Bahrain and deported.

The Bahrain Press Association confirmed that "the government of Bahrain has not stopped since 2011 until today inventing fake pretexts to harass its Shiite citizens because they represent the largest segment of its political opponents."

On Tuesday, August 8, 2023, the first case of fainting was recorded among one of the detainees in the Jaw Central Prison, who was on hunger strike for the second day in a row.

The Shahab Centre for Human Rights urged senior UN officials to intervene and call on Bahrain not to send Mohamed Mahmoud and Muhammad Saad Hassanein to Egypt. The two were detained this week by the Bahraini authorities despite committing no crime.

It can be said that the hunger strike launched by the six convicted children in the Dry Dock Prison three days ago is one of the most important strikes that must be highlighted, as through their hunger, the young convicts announce Bahrain's failure to abide by the Restorative Justice Law for Children.

Hundreds of political detainees in Jaw Central Prison began an open hunger strike on Monday, August 7, 2023, to demand their rights after the authorities ignored their demands and continued to violate their rights with unfair decisions.

The authorities released Majeed Abdulmohsen, Mounir Mushaima, and Ali Mhanna, who were summoned on Friday, August 4, 2023, and detained for three days after presenting them to the Public Prosecution, over participating in a march held in the Diraz, west of the capital, Manama, to condemn the burning of the Holy Qura'n in Sweden.

One may think for a moment that they are standing between the two holy shrines of Karbala, but they in fact stand in another Husseini spot: A Bahrain Ma'tam. The tiny Gulf kingdom ranks at the top on the map of the Ashura commemorations.

Detainee Habib Al-Fardan spoke in an audio message from Jaw Central Prison words as if he is mourning himself, in light of his deteriorating health condition and the prison administration's refusal of his demand for release to receive treatment.

The Friday preacher at the Imam Al-Sadiq Mosque in Diraz, west of the Bahraini capital Manama, Sheikh Ali Al-Sadadi, said that "this year's Ashura season has passed and ended, recording successes in our country, Bahrain."

Authorities cut off call between death row inmate Mohammad Ramadan and his wife and transferred him to solitary confinement in Jaw Central Prison.

Sayed Abdullah Al-Ghuraifi suffered a health setback and started receiving treatment as a result.

The 10 days of Muharram have passed, only 10 days a year, in which the Shiite community, which represents the majority of Bahrain's population, expresses its grief over the martyrdom of the grandson of the Prophet Mohammad

Iran's Deputy President for Legal Affairs Mohammad Dehghan revealed, on the sidelines of a meeting of the Iranian government, that Iran has frozen financial assets held in Bahrain and South Korea and that it is working to free them.

Tensions between Gulf states and Israel are rising three years after historic peace deals, slowing down hoped-for investments and setting back US efforts to further integrate the region by including main power Saudi Arabia, Bloomberg reported.

The authorities refused to temporarily release the opposition leader and Al-Wefaq Secretary-General, Sheikh Ali Salman, to participate in his aunt's funeral. The authorities also ignored a request from the relatives of Sheikh Salman's aunt to release two of her brothers to bid farewell before her burial.

6 minor detainees in the Dry Dock Prison have once again started a hunger strike to demand their release and an end to their ill-treatment.

The first ten days of the holy month of Muharram ended, and the King of Bahrain, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, made his usual statement as every year, congratulating the ministries on the success of the Ashura season.