For over a year, the detainees at the Dry Dock prison haven’t seen the sun light. This is no exaggeration; this is a real crime.

A number of families of “Diraz Raid” detainees said that they don’t know anything about their sons since over a week, as they only received one call from them on Thursday (May 26, 2017) after they were arrested during the raid carried out on Diraz and Sheikh Isa Qassim’s house on May 23.

A number of Jaw prisoners complained about ongoing restrictions on them and lack of food, as some of them spent days of Ramadan month without receiving Iftar meal.

An eyewitness reported that the said detainee Sayed Alawi Al-Moussawi in the Public Prosecution building today Wednesday (May 31, 2017).

Six human rights organization said that some activists and bloggers were recently summoned to the National Security building, and were subject to torture and sexual assault to force them into suspending their human rights and media activism.

The Ministry of Interior announced that it has arrested 50 Bahrainis during a security raid on the village of Diraz, west of the capital Manama to disperse a peaceful protest outside the house of Shiites leader Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim.

Amnesty International described referring Sayed Fadhel Abbas to military courts as “serious blow for justice” in Bahrain, indicating that there are fears of him being subjected to torture.

Family of detainee Sayed Alawi Hussein said that the Bahraini security authorities are still preventing Sayed Alawi from meeting his family or lawyer since he was arrested on October 2016.

A Coalition of 10 human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a statement Sunday (April 30, 2017) stressed that “Bahraini authorities’ treatment of wrongfully imprisoned detainees violates international standards on prisoner treatment and in some cases may constitute cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment.”

An Emirati court sentenced on Wednesday (April 26, 2017) two Bahrainis, Abbas Ahmad Marzooq, 37 years, and Ali Hassan Al-Hinni, 37 years, to 3 years in prison and 500.000 Dirham (about 50.000 BD) fine over publishing footage on social media outlets.

Family of detainee Hussein Jaafar Abdullah Abu Hamad (21 years) demanded the competent parties in the reform and rehabilitation center in Dry Dock Prison to allow their son receive his medications prescribed by a doctor, in Al-Salmaniya Medical Complex, after undergoing a surgery in his stomach.

Bahrain's First High Criminal Court sentenced 8 detainees, arrested over political cases, including a Gulf youth, to terms ranging from 5 to 3 years in prison, over escaping from detention center after attacking policemen with a shaver and piece of iron.

Families of detainees said that their housing requests have been suspended or cancelled by the ministry of housing within the past months after they failed to update their data, according to Al-Wasat newspaper.

Detainee Fadhel Abbas' family demanded the ministry of interior to allow them visit their son, expressing fear over his safety, especially that he has been held since 190 days, i.e. more than 6 months, noting that the family couldn’t visit him even one time. His lawyer couldn’t get Abbas’ proxy to represent Abbas attending the investigation sessions. Moreover, Fadhel wasn’t even presented to the prosecution despite being held for months.

Information received by Amnesty revealed that detainee Ali Mohamed Hakeem Al-Arab has been tortured during his 26 days of interrogation, including having his toenails pulled off, given electric-shocks and beaten.

The Supreme Court of Appeals upheld 5-year jail term against a defendant in the case of escaping from prisoners transport bus that was transporting them from Dry Dock Prison.

Spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry Bahram Qasemi refused the new claims made by the Bahraini officials that Iran has had links with a so-called terrorist group arrested recently.

The administration of Dry Dock Prison proceeded in its restricting measures against the detainees and their families. It has banned the detainees’ families from bringing in clothes to their sons who are detained over political cases.

Information circulated on Sunday (March 19, 2017) revealed that Jaw Prison authorities are preventing detainees from performing prayers or their religious rituals.

Human rights activist Safaa Al-Khawaja, quoted families of detainees in Jaw Central Prison as saying that the prison's police bet one of the detainees for reciting Dua'a Kumail on Thursday night, and that he was returned to the prison cell while suffering from fatigue due to beating.