Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim took part in the eulogy ceremony held in the Iranian city of Qom on the second anniversary of the massacre carried out by the regime against Diraz protestors.

US State Department expressed deep concern about the decision taken by the Bahraini authorities to dissolve the opposition party, the Wa’ad political society, and said that they are following that situation closely.

Sheikh Maytham Al-Salman said that condemnations will continue against Bahrain due to committing a massacre against protestors outside Sheikh Isa Qassim’s house.

The Bahraini authorities released (Saturday June 3, 2017) Shiite cleric Sheikh Bashar al-A’li, after almost 5 hours of interrogations.

A U.N. human rights chief on Friday urged an investigation into a Bahraini security raid which killed five people last month and expressed concern at what he called a crackdown on dissent in the Gulf island kingdom.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Friday called on the Government of Bahrain to promptly launch an independent, effective investigation into the deaths of five protesters during a security operation last week

May 23 made its way into the history of freedom. This anarchic regime however, accumulated its record in the history of shame, instead of proving its legitimacy though the voice of the people.

Families of “Diraz Martyrs” who were killed by the government forces during an attack on protestors in Diraz on (May 23, 2017), denied that they showed will to bury the bodies of the martyrs then retracted.

Al-Wefaq Deputy Secretary General, Sheikh Hussein Al-Daihi addressed a televised speech on Monday (May 29, 2017) in which he said that the regime’s inclination to escalate the situation regarding Ayatollah Qassim's case means declaring a total alienation from the majority (of the population). “It is no doubt the period after attack on this prominent figures in not as period before,” he noted.

The incidents of the bloody attack carried out on Diraz at the morning of (May 23, 2017) that left at least 5 martyrs and more than 100 injuries, 8 of whom are in the intensive care, haven’t come to an end yet.

The regime forces attacked symbolic funeral procession held for the 5 Diraz martyrs, who were killed by the Ministry of Interior during a deadly attack on protestors in Diraz, before it buried their bodies in a secret way on Friday.

Families of five Bahrainis killed during a security raid last week accused authorities of depriving them from bidding farewell to their loved ones after authorities buried the bodies without their permission.

Shiite religious authority Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi issued a statement condemning the attack launched by the rulers of Bahrain on the house of Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim.

Lawyer Abdullah Al-Shamlawi said that burying the bodies of those killed in the raid on the Diraz sit-in contrary to adopted customs is a flagrant violation of the Constitution, the National Action Charter and established norms in the country.

Two days after burying the bodies of the five martyrs who were killed in the Diraz attack, the Bahraini Interior Ministry admitted to burying the martyrs without handing over their bodies to their families.

The families of the five martyrs (Diraz martyrs) reiterated their demands to the official authorities to hand them over the martyrs' corpses so that they can wash them, hold them a funeral procession in accordance to beliefs and bury them in the cemeteries specified by the families.

American political analyst Simon Henderson said in an article that the Diraz events on May 23, 2017, could have dangerous consequences for both Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.

Information reported that the security forces buried on Friday (May 26, 2017) the 5 Diraz martyrs, after their families refused to bury them in the cemeteries decided by the Ministry of Interior.

A cleric named Mulla Sadiq Mohammad Ghuloom admitted to praying on the bodies of martyrs even without the permission of their parents and families.

The Friday preacher in Tehran Ayatollah Sayed Ahmad Khatami, said that the attack on protesters in Diraz, the killing and arrest of dozens is a “brutality”, adding that “never has any government treated its people with such brutality.”