The National Institute for Human Rights (NIHR) said on Monday, August 14, 2023, that "nurses have been provided around the clock in anticipation of any emergency" that may happen as a result of the hunger strike of political detainees in Jaw Central Prison.

The Department of Freedoms and Human Rights at Al-Wefaq Society issued a report entitled "Bahrain: An Icon of Repression", on the human rights situation in Ashura and related events.

A group of religious scholars in Bahrain declared their full solidarity with the political prisoners on hunger strike at Jaw Central Prison.

Ahmed Al-Wadaei, director of the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD), revealed that the Jaw Prison administration transferred 4 death row political prisoners to solitary confinement after resisting an attack they were subjected to in May 2023.

The director of the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) Sayed Ahmed Al-Wadaei revealed important details about the negotiation of officials in Jaw Central Prison and the Ministry of Interior with representatives of prisoners on hunger strike in the prison.

Maryam Al-Khawaja, daughter of prisoner of conscience Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, confirmed that her father was transferred to the intensive care unit at the "Military Hospital" due to heart rhythm problems.

Sayed Jamil Kadhem, head of the Al-Wefaq Shura Council, stressed that "the demands of the prisoners who are on hunger strike are just, necessary, available and commensurate with all the rights of prisoners in the world."

President of Bahrain Center for Human Rights, Nedal Al-Salman, and head of monitoring and documentation department at the center, Enas Oun, began a hunger strike on Saturday, August 12, 2023, in solidarity with detainees in Bahraini prisons

Al-Wefaq Secretary-General Sheikh Ali Salman abstained from visits in solidarity with the political prisoners who are on hunger strike in Jaw Prison.

Israel's Foreign Minister Eli Cohen will visit Bahrain in September 2023, the Hebrew i24news website reported.

Three new cases of fainting were recorded among the political detainees who are on hunger strike for the third day in a row in building 8, ward 2, in Jaw Central Prison, and were transferred to the prison's clinic.

Al-Wefaq Deputy Secretary-General, Sheikh Hussein Al-Daihi, stressed that "the demands of political detainees are a necessity."

Sheikh Abdullah Al-Saleh, deputy secretary-general of the Islamic Action Society (Amal), said that "the issue of detainees will remain among the most important issues all the people work for."

Prisoner of conscience Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja announced on Wednesday, August 9, 2023, launching hunger strike in solidarity with the political detainees who are on hunger strike in Jaw Central Prison.

Bahrain prison inmates are taking part in a hunger strike over conditions there, activists and authorities said Wednesday, the latest sign of simmering unrest in the island kingdom a decade after the Arab Spring.

"Their Right", a human rights organization which specializes in defending prisoners of conscience in Egypt, yesterday accused the Egyptian authorities of disappearing two citizens who were detained in Bahrain and deported.

The Bahrain Press Association confirmed that "the government of Bahrain has not stopped since 2011 until today inventing fake pretexts to harass its Shiite citizens because they represent the largest segment of its political opponents."

On Tuesday, August 8, 2023, the first case of fainting was recorded among one of the detainees in the Jaw Central Prison, who was on hunger strike for the second day in a row.

The Shahab Centre for Human Rights urged senior UN officials to intervene and call on Bahrain not to send Mohamed Mahmoud and Muhammad Saad Hassanein to Egypt. The two were detained this week by the Bahraini authorities despite committing no crime.

Hundreds of political detainees in Jaw Central Prison began an open hunger strike on Monday, August 7, 2023, to demand their rights after the authorities ignored their demands and continued to violate their rights with unfair decisions.