Bahrain Center for Human Rights said that it documented violations committed by the Ministry of Interior against Ashura rituals in 15 villages, condemning the actions practiced by the authorities against religious beliefs.

The Chief of Public Security Tariq Al-Hassan claimed that the Ministry of Interior respects all religious occasions, including Ashura. This comes after the ministry took down Ashura banners and attacked those who participated in erecting the banners and flags.

Regime forces clashed with protesters in Bahrain, after removing Ashura signs and banners, which were in display in various areas across country.

Imams of Friday congregational prayer announced the resumption of the prayers on Friday (September 23, 2016) in the Imam Al-Sadiq mosque in Diraz, the largest Shiite mosque

Saudi Arabia has arrested 17 suspected Islamic State sympathisers accused of plotting attacks on religious officials, security forces, civilian districts and economic and military targets, the interior ministry said on Monday.

Nine Shiite Bahrainis were taken into custody in Saudi Arabia while they were performing the Hajj (pilgrimage) rituals, reported activists.

What proves the bad intentions of the king is when the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities seized the mosque several years after attempts to falsify its history.

UN Special Rapporteurs addressed in letter to Bahraini Government "concerning" information about alleged patterns of continuous discrimination against Shia citizens (mainly Baharna and Ajam).

Bahrain Mirror publishes details on important document revealing information about case of prominent Shiite leader, Sheikh Khalaf Al-Asfour, during 1920s and 1930s.

Iraq asked Saudi Arabia to replace its ambassador in Baghdad after his comments about alleged persecution of Sunni Muslims.

Around 217 Shiite Bahraini clerics issued a statement stressing that the Shiite sect is being threatened.

Justice Ministry considered using term "target" is "continuation of sectarian incitement approach to promote disorder."

Top Shia clerics in Bahrain announce that country's Shiite component is being targeted in its very existence.

Senior Bahrain clerics say "detention of Sheikh Mohammad Sanqour is blatant targeting of Friday ritual and religious discourse.”

Following a four-week pause, Friday and congregational prayers were resumed in Shiite mosques across Bahrain.

Imams of Friday and congregational prayers announced they will resume holding prayers in Shiite mosques starting.

Head of the Bahraini Ulama Islamic Council, which was dissolved by the authorities, Sayed Majeed Al-Mashaal, said that Shiites are facing "the biggest target in our contemporary era".

Imams of Friday and congregational prayers announced their continuous halt to the Friday and congregational prayers amid the authorities' ongoing clamp down on Shia.

A Shiite Bahraini cleric, Sayed Abbas Shobbar, revealed that a book, currently published in Bahrain, comprises chapters that declare the followers of the Islamic Shia sect as infidels, adding that the publication is being openly sold in book shops across the country.

The Bahraini Interior Minister Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa made a derogatory statement on Wednesday (March 2, 2016) against the Shiite sect which the majority of the indigenous people of Bahrain follow.