Worshipers at the Imam Sadiq Mosque in Diraz, west of the Bahrain capital Manama, took to the streets today, Friday, April 26, 2024, in a massive demonstration following Friday prayers in support of Gaza and Bahraini prisoners of conscience.

Bahrain Watch Organization reported that “as of 7pm tonight, Bahrain has shut down the internet in the village of Diraz every day for 365 days.”

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) issued a report which is a summary of the information mentioned in the reports of treaty bodies and special procedures in the UN documents relevant to Bahrain.

In the small town of Diraz, just a few miles from where Prince Charles met with Bahrain's royals, there is graffiti demanding the death of the Gulf island's monarch, armored vehicles with chicken wire on their windows and a tense calm that could be shattered at any time.

Bahraini Public Prosecution decided to detain 12 citizens, including 6 Shiite clerics, over charges of joining open rally in Diraz.

The Bahraini security authorities blocked the entrances of Diraz village on Friday (February 26, 2016). This blockage coincided with a call by the Bahraini Shiite clerics for a central prayer at the Imam Sadiq Mosque, after Sheikh Mohammad Sanqour was summoned for interrogation.

Thousands of Shiite worshipers in Bahrain's Diraz took part in a march following Friday prayers at the Imam Sadiq Mosque during which they chanted different slogans demanding putting an end to the sectarian discrimination practiced against them.

The Bahraini authorities blocked on Wednesday (February 10, 2015) a number of main entrances leading to Al-Budai Street in the Al-Diraz area with cement barriers.

A Bahraini court sentenced on Sunday (January 17, 2016) to life imprisonment three protesters, whom the Bahraini Interior Ministry had accused of attempting to murder policemen in the village of Diraz, west of the Bahraini capital Manama.

Bahrain Mirror: Bahrain’s Fourth High Criminal Court sentenced 26 defendants to prison terms between 3 and 10 years, also fining them 2,660 Bahraini dinars each, over charges of participating in assembly, burning patrol vehicle and assaulting police in Al-Diraz.

Bahrain Mirror: The Bahrain Human Rights Society (BHRS) said that it monitored 27 arbitrary arrests and 6 house raids in the Bahraini villages of Al-Diraz, Sitra, Buri and Al-Zinj within the third week of November 2015.

Bahrain Mirror: Worshippers in Bahrain’s Al-Diraz took to the streets following Friday prayer (July 3, 2015) at the Imam Sadiq mosque, demanding the release of all political prisoners, mainly the Secretary-General of Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, Sheikh Ali Salman.

Bahrain Mirror: A number of families in the Bahraini village of Al-Diraz lost contact with 6 of their children after the security forces arrested them on Sunday (June 21, 2015) and accused them of burning a security patrol vehicle in the area.