June 20, 2016 was indeed a watershed moment, when the regime was attempting to crown years of brutal campaigns of repression that were ongoing since March 16, 2011 by eliminating the major leadership of the Shiite community in the country: Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim.

The High Appeals Court postponed Diraz sit-in case to May 29 for ruling instead of May 25.

A human rights adviser to the Embassy of Bahrain in London, Hasan Shafaei, said that “more good news was coming,” referring to new steps that may be taken by the Bahraini government with regards to rights, reported author Bill Law, which comes following the decision to restore the citizenships of 551 Bahrainis which were withdrawn by judicial rulings.

The High Appeals Court postponed Diraz sit-in case to May 25 for ruling.

Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim issued a statement on Friday (February 1, 2019), in which he said that “Freedom is the Bahraini people’s constant demand, which they never forget, neglect, disregard or give up on.”

The follow-up team for the treatment of Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim said that he left London on Tuesday (December 25, 2018) to visit the holy shrines in Iraq.

Bahrain-based Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society said that the town of Diraz, west of the capital Manama, has completed on Monday 700 days of the siege imposed on the area.

The New York Times newspaper said that Bahrain Embassy in Washington claimed that Sheikh Isa Qassim’s family had rejected an offer of an ambulance to take him to the hospital.

The Bahraini security authorities sent four subpoenas on Friday (June 16, 2017) summoning 4 Shiite clerics for interrogations on Sunday.

UN Experts: Repression Campaign Took New Turn after Citizenship Revocation of Sheikh Isa Qassim, Intensified after Wa’ad Dissolution

Activists on social media outlets said that the security authorities arrested on Wednesday (May 24, 2017) neurosurgeon Dr. Taha Al-Dirazi from the court after his 3-month jail term was upheld over the charge of taking part in Diraz protest.

Bahrain's interior ministry said it had launched a security operation on Tuesday in the home village of the country's Shi'ite Muslim spiritual leader, the site of a sit-in encampment of his followers.

A Bahraini court on Sunday sentenced revered Shiite cleric Isa Qassim to a suspended one-year jail term for illegal fundraising and money laundering, a judicial source said.

Hezbollah denounced on Sunday (May 21, 2017) the sentence against the senior religious leader in Bahrain, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim.

Head of the Bahraini Hawza in the holy city of Qom, Sheikh Abdullah Al-Daqaq said that the verdict issued against Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, hides between its lines dangerous mazes leading to his exile from Bahrain in 6 months.

Bahrain has given a prominent Shiite cleric a 1-year suspended prison sentence and seized assets belonging to him and his ministry.

A court in Bahrain on Sunday convicted the spiritual leader of the country's Shi'ite Muslims of collecting funds illegally and money laundering and sentenced him to one year in jail suspended for three years, local media reported.

The Fourth High Criminal Court, presided over by Judge Ali Al-Dhahrani, ruled during its 8:15 am session Sunday morning (May 21, 2017), a 1-years imprisonment against Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, Hussein al-Qasab, and Mirza Al-Dirazi, suspended for 3 years.

Bahraini scholars issued a statement calling on the men and women of the country to fill mosques in all regions in Bahrain on Saturday night (May 20, 2017), on the eve of scheduled trial of Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim on Sunday (May 21, 2017).

A group of NGOs issued an appeal calling on international high-ranked officials and agencies to take public actions regarding the case of Bahrain’s Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, before his trial scheduled to be held next Sunday May 7, 2017.