Sources said Jaw Prison guards attacked the isolated cell block, where dissidents and other inmates either sentenced to death or life imprisonment are held.

Family of death row prisoner Kumail Al-Manami asked Jaw prison’s administration to expose him to a specialized doctor, indicating that “Al-Manami has been repeatedly visiting Al-Salmaniya medical complex to receive treatment in the ear, nose and throat department as well as the departments of eye and internal medicine due to the different pains he is suffering from following his arrest.”

The aunt of detained Sheikh Mirza al-Mahrous died, after authorities did not allow him to visit her in the hospital.

Al-Naim Detainees Committee said that Shiite cleric Sheikh Mounir Al-Maatouk is exposed to deliberate medical negligence in Jaw prison, after the prison's administration refused to allow him receive medical clutch that he needs due to his knee pains and to change his bed, which increased his back pains.

Detainees in Jaw Central Prison stressed that the Bahraini authorities decided not to treat them in the hospitals affiliated to the ministry of health and to only treat them in the military hospital. According to inmates’ estimations, the health of about 1500 detainees will deteriorate.

Alyaa Radhi, wife of opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman who is detained in Jaw prison, said that Sheikh Mirza Al-Mahrous (one of the detained figures in Jaw prison) has started an open hunger strike.

A number of detained Shiite clerics in the Central Jaw Prison, said that introducing the personal status law by the authorities aims at “weakening the opposition, and pressuring it to abandon its legitimate demands and its popular movement.”

Family of detainee Akbar Ali (21 years) asked the competent parties to transfer their son to the psychiatric hospital to receive adequate treatment.

The British Newsletter website said that “A Foreign Office-paid company has been reported to an information watchdog (Reprieve) for failing to reveal details of its work in Middle Eastern prisons where torture is allegedly rife.”

Activists said that Shiite cleric Sayed Majeed Al-Mashaal, the head of Ulama Islamic council (the highest Shia religious institution in the country), was transferred this morning (September 1, 2016) to Jaw prison.

Human rights information revealed that Jaw Prison administration asked the political prisoners to buy the medications they need on their own expense due lack of budget, the families of the prisoners reported.

Seven prisoners were transferred to solitary confinement, after being beaten up by Jordanian forces assigned to secure the prison.

Detained HR activist, Naji Fateel, says new communication system at Jau Prison "violates international treaties and conventions..."

Prisoner held in Jaw Prison in very dire condition after being subjected to daliy torture.

Bahrain occupied the first rank in the Middle East in terms of prison population rate.

Special Investigation Unit said the appeals court fined a policeman 100 BD for beating detainee in Jaw Prison.

Inspection report on Jau prison says some prisoners assaulted, but faces criticism for failing to probe torture claims.

Prisoners and Detainees Rights Commission said number of prisoners arrested over (politically-motivated) riot charges reached about 1,000.

Inmates held in Jaw Central Prison’s Block 10 went on a hunger strike in protest of the maltreatment.

The Freedoms and Human Rights Department at Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society expressed its concern, regarding the recurrent news it has been receiving from Jaw Central Prison since April 2016 about overcrowding issues in the prison, particularly block 4.