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.

The Cabinet revealed that the population of Bahrain reached one million and 577 thousand people until mid-2023.

The authorities released Sheikh Mahmoud Al-A'ali on Tuesday (August 1, 2023) after summoning him for interrogation over his speech of Muharram 10th eve.

Al-Wefaq Society said that "the ink on the lie of coexistence, freedoms and sectarian pluralism had barely dried when the authority summoned the scholar Sheikh Mahmoud Al-A'ali for interrogation."

Bahrain loses one and a half million dinars daily due to the lack of a mechanism for recycling domestic, consumer waste and other types of waste, at a rate of at least 560 million dinars per year.

The security authorities summoned on (Sunday, July 30, 2023) the prominent Shiite cleric, Sheikh Mahmoud Al-A'ali, for interrogation over a speech he delivered on the 10th eve of Muharram in the capital, Manama.

Al-Wefaq Society confirmed that Sheikh Sultan Al Qasimi, Ruler of Sharjah, author of the book, 'The Beginning of Al-Atoub Rule in Bahrain' has no secret or public relationship with the Bahraini opposition, nor with the citizens in Bahrain, and he is an independent researcher who has no interests with the opposition.

The authorities continued their attacks on the Ashura manifestations and their restrictions on citizens participating in Ashura rituals in several Bahraini areas.

Al-Wefaq media official Sayed Taher Al-Mousawi criticized the "absence of the official media" from the Ashura rituals while the government allowed the opening of a private radio station for the Indian and Filipino communities in Bahrain.

The authorities released the youths they arrested from A'ali on Wednesday, July 26, 2023, after the Interior Ministry ordered them to hand over the mourning flags and black banners for Ashura, as well as the equipment they use to install them.