Associated Press: Hundreds of Iranian worshippers have rallied in Tehran to denounce a Bahrain police raid on the hometown of a prominent Shiite cleric this week that left five of his supporters dead and 286 arrested.

Families of Diraz martyrs said that they refuse to yield to any request by the Bahraini security authorities to bury their sons in the Hura cemetery.

Supporters of Islamic Movement in Nigeria staged an assembly on Thursday (May 25, 2017) to condemn Diraz massacre and raid carried on the house of spiritual leader of Shiite majority in Bahrain, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim.

The Bahraini security authorities released on Friday (May 26, 2017) the Shiite cleric Sheikh Abdulzahraa Al-Karbabadi after about one month of his arrest, according to activists from the village.

The Al-Bawaba news website said that Bahraini protesters have defied Manama's warning against holding more public gatherings and stayed on the streets in a show of anger against the regime's bloody crackdown on Diraz, the home village of prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim.

The American "Washington Post" newspaper described Diraz raid as the deadliest one carried out by the Bahraini government on opposition in years.

A Bahrain court fined a prominent journalist 1,000 dinars ($2,650) on Thursday for reporting in the kingdom without official permission, her lawyer said, after a trial seen by rights groups as an example of diminishing press freedom.

A Bahrain court sentenced 17 men to jail terms ranging from several years to life imprisonment on charges of forming a terrorist cell, the public prosecutor said on Thursday, days after a police raid killed five demonstrators.

Bahrain is investigating the death of five people during a raid on the home village of the spiritual leader of its Shi'ite Muslim community, the interior ministry said on Thursday.

Bahrain security authorities decided to release Al-Wefaq Society Shura member, Nizar al-Qari on Thursday (May 25, 2017). His family received a call to go and receive him.

Amnesty International confirmed that there are 8 civilians suffering from serious injuries in the intensive care unit in Bahrain hospitals, as a result of the security forces’ attack on Diraz Tuesday (May 23, 2017).

Lebanon’s Hezbollah Secretary General Sayed Hassan Nasrallah called on Lebanon to refuse the exile of Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, Bahrain’s Shiite Leader, to its territories, just as Iraq has refused.

The second minor criminal court convicted Thursday (May 25, 2017) Bahraini journalist Nazeeha Saeed, journalist at Radio Monte Carlo and France 24, and ruled a BD 1000 fine against her.

Bahrain Security Forces summoned Najah Ibrahim Al-Harhoush, mother of detainee Ibrahim Naim Marhoon from Sanabis, for interrogations.

The German Foreign Ministry urged in a statement issued Thursday (May 25, 2017), all parties to do their calculations, work towards peaceful coexistence, and return to the path of national dialogue.

The security authorities arrested on Thursday (May 25, 2017) preacher of Al-Kheif Mosque, Shiite cleric Sheikh Isa Al-Moamen from the court after his 3-month jail term was upheld over a Friday sermon he delivered.

Bahrain followed suit after Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt and blocked the Qatari media outlets amid the mounting Gulf crisis with Qatar.

United Arab Emirates said that it welcomes the measures taken by the government of Bahrain to extend the rule of law in Diraz.

Activists published photos on social media outlets showing security forces affiliated to the ministry of interior while raiding the besieged village of Diraz using dozens of vehicles and number of armors and accompanying some of the detainees who were arrested as a result of the bloody attack on Diraz.

Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society said in a statement that the Bahraini regime has committed, with international complicity and silence, a heinous crime and historic sin and blatant violation of all international norms protecting the principles of human rights.