The Huffington Post published (Sunday January 8, 2017) an article entitled “Bahrain, The Unspoken Revolution that will Shake Gulf Monarchies”, with reference on the geopolitical status of Bahrain and its revolution.

For over half a year, since June 20, 2016, security authorities overpowered a full siege on the Bahraini town of Diraz, home to the prominent Shiite cleric, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim.

An old lady from Diraz experienced a very difficult situation due to the security siege on Diraz that has been imposed since about 200 days.

When Jamal Fakhro mocks the besieged residents of Bahrain’s Diraz, he is actually mocking the neoliberal face he represents.

Bahraini Interior Ministry claimed that its morning raid on December 21, 2016 on Diraz area was launched for the purpose of “implementing judicial orders to arrest wanted persons and search their residencies.”

Hundreds of protesters gathered in the Nigerian state Kanu to condemn the Bahraini regime forces’ attack against protesters assembled outside the house of prominent religious leader in the country, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim.

Hezbollah Secretary General, His Eminence Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, said (Friday December 23, 2016) that what happened in Diraz is proof that the Bahraini government does not work with reason, and still insists on committing follies.

National Islamic Society – Al-Wefaq’s deputy secretary general, Sheikh Hussein al-Daihi, said the Bahraini regime “committed a foolish step, trying to break into the house of Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim.”

Violence and protests escalated in Bahrain on Wednesday (December 21, 2016) after clashes broke out between the regime forces and protestors outside the Shiite majority religious leader Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim’s house.

Bahraini regime forces clashed on Wednesday (December 21, 2016) with protestors in Sitra Island southeast of the capital, Manama.

Bahrain’s Ministry of Interior said on Wednesday (December 21, 2016) that it arrested a number of wanted in some villages and searched their houses.

Police in Bahrain on Wednesday clashed with protesters supporting a top Shiite cleric who has been stripped of his citizenship and is on trial in the Sunni-ruled kingdom, activists said.

Police in Bahrain briefly clashed with residents of a besieged town that is home to a Shiite cleric on Wednesday, arresting at least two youths before withdrawing from the area, witnesses and activists said.

Heavily armed forces raided Diraz village where thousands of Bahrainis have been protesting since 6 months outside the house of the spiritual leader of Shia majority Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim.

Bahraini security forces clashed with supporters of the country's Shi'ite Muslim spiritual leader near his home on Wednesday, activists said.

Social media activists published photos showing thousands of citizens outside the house of the spiritual leader of Shia majority Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim.

Heavily armed forces raided Diraz village where thousands of Bahrainis have been protesting since 6 months outside the house of the spiritual leader of Shia majority Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim.

The Al-Wasat local newspaper said that the residents of Diraz village resorted to nearby villages after the authorities had prevented the drinking water trucks from entering the village to supply it with water.

The Al-Wasat newspaper said that the security authorities prevented the drinking water companies and that of food from entering Diraz to supply the shops, describing what’s going on as “the worst of its kind besiege”.

Bahrain’s High Criminal Court commuted the 5-year jail term against a Bahraini suspect (29 years) to 3 years. The suspect was condemned of hiding 3 convicts “Ali Abdulshaheed Al-Singace who is sentenced to death penalty and 2 others sentenced to prison terms” in his father’s house in Diraz.