The authorities released Majeed Abdulmohsen, Mounir Mushaima, and Ali Mhanna, who were summoned on Friday, August 4, 2023, and detained for three days after presenting them to the Public Prosecution, over participating in a march held in the Diraz, west of the capital, Manama, to condemn the burning of the Holy Qura'n in Sweden.

Detainee Habib Al-Fardan spoke in an audio message from Jaw Central Prison words as if he is mourning himself, in light of his deteriorating health condition and the prison administration's refusal of his demand for release to receive treatment.

The Friday preacher at the Imam Al-Sadiq Mosque in Diraz, west of the Bahraini capital Manama, Sheikh Ali Al-Sadadi, said that "this year's Ashura season has passed and ended, recording successes in our country, Bahrain."

Authorities cut off call between death row inmate Mohammad Ramadan and his wife and transferred him to solitary confinement in Jaw Central Prison.

Sayed Abdullah Al-Ghuraifi suffered a health setback and started receiving treatment as a result.

Iran's Deputy President for Legal Affairs Mohammad Dehghan revealed, on the sidelines of a meeting of the Iranian government, that Iran has frozen financial assets held in Bahrain and South Korea and that it is working to free them.

Tensions between Gulf states and Israel are rising three years after historic peace deals, slowing down hoped-for investments and setting back US efforts to further integrate the region by including main power Saudi Arabia, Bloomberg reported.

The authorities refused to temporarily release the opposition leader and Al-Wefaq Secretary-General, Sheikh Ali Salman, to participate in his aunt's funeral. The authorities also ignored a request from the relatives of Sheikh Salman's aunt to release two of her brothers to bid farewell before her burial.

6 minor detainees in the Dry Dock Prison have once again started a hunger strike to demand their release and an end to their ill-treatment.

The Cabinet revealed that the population of Bahrain reached one million and 577 thousand people until mid-2023.

The authorities released Sheikh Mahmoud Al-A'ali on Tuesday (August 1, 2023) after summoning him for interrogation over his speech of Muharram 10th eve.

Al-Wefaq Society said that "the ink on the lie of coexistence, freedoms and sectarian pluralism had barely dried when the authority summoned the scholar Sheikh Mahmoud Al-A'ali for interrogation."

The security authorities summoned on (Sunday, July 30, 2023) the prominent Shiite cleric, Sheikh Mahmoud Al-A'ali, for interrogation over a speech he delivered on the 10th eve of Muharram in the capital, Manama.

Al-Wefaq Society confirmed that Sheikh Sultan Al Qasimi, Ruler of Sharjah, author of the book, 'The Beginning of Al-Atoub Rule in Bahrain' has no secret or public relationship with the Bahraini opposition, nor with the citizens in Bahrain, and he is an independent researcher who has no interests with the opposition.

The authorities continued their attacks on the Ashura manifestations and their restrictions on citizens participating in Ashura rituals in several Bahraini areas.

Al-Wefaq media official Sayed Taher Al-Mousawi criticized the "absence of the official media" from the Ashura rituals while the government allowed the opening of a private radio station for the Indian and Filipino communities in Bahrain.

The authorities released the youths they arrested from A'ali on Wednesday, July 26, 2023, after the Interior Ministry ordered them to hand over the mourning flags and black banners for Ashura, as well as the equipment they use to install them.

The security forces attacked Ashura manifestations in A'ali for the second day in a row.

The Public Prosecution arrested youth Mohammad Baqer from Hamad Town for a week pending investigation.

The Sunni Endowments (Waqf) hosted sheikhs from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to deliver sermons in several areas while the authorities' banned Shiites from hosting preachers and eulogy reciters from outside Bahrain to participate in Ashura ceremonies.