1.Mr. Ali Faisal Al-Shufa (17 years old): arrested on 12 March at dawn, and the Public Prosecution ordered that he be taken to custody for 7 days, pending trial.
2.Mr. Hassan Abdali Isa (33 years old): arrested on 12 March at dawn, and the Public Prosecution ordered that he be taken to custody for 7 days, pending trial.
3.Mr. Mohsen Abdali Isa (26 years old): arrested on 12 March at dawn, and the Public Prosecution ordered that he be taken to custody for 7 days, pending trial.
4.Mr. Ammar Makki Mohammed Al-Aali (36 years old): arrested on 12 March at dawn, and the Public Prosecution ordered that he be taken to custody for 7 days, pending trial.
5.Mr. Mahmood Abdul-Majeed Abdulla Al-Jamri (34 years old): arrested on 12 March at dawn, and the Public Prosecution ordered that he be taken to custody for 7 days, pending trial.
6.Mr. Mahdi Ebrahim Al-Basri (25 years old): arrested on 11 March at dawn. His relatives confirmed to the Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights (BYSHR)that the contents of the house were destroyed and they were verbally abused. Mahdi also faced mistreatment in the Criminal Investigations. Mahdi is a practicing lawyer.

While the speed of Bahrain’s Internet connections is among the best in the Gulf, the level of Internet filtering and surveillance is one of the highest in the world. The royal family is represented in all areas of Internet management and has sophisticated tools at its disposal for spying on its subjects. Reporters Without Borders added Bahrain to its list of “Internet Enemies” in 2012. The situation for freedom of information has hardly improved since then amid the continuing street protests that began in February 2011 and were inspired by the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.

More: http://surveillance.rsf.org/en/bahrain/

Detained Lawyer @MahdiAlbasri1 has been charged with tweeting degrading tweets on account @karranah14.

investigators allege account @karranah14 was accessed via home internet connection of @MahdiAlbasri1 they monitred his internet connection.

@MahdiAlbasri1 was arrested after dawn house raid at early hours of 11 Mar 2013. sent to public prosecution on 12 March 2013.

The General Director of Anti-Corruption and Economic and Electronic Security announced on Tuesday that a group of individuals were monitored for using social media for defamation of the King. Investigation identified six of them, in which they were referred to the public prosecution.

Shehabi was careful, making sure no-one was watching her, and switched her mobile off during the interview. But the police paid her a visit all the same shortly afterwards. The officers let her go, but then came the first e-mail. Subject: “Torture report on Nabeel Rajab”. Attachments: purported photographs of the tortured Rajab. He’s a friend of Shehabi’s and fellow dissident. Shehabi tried to open the file, but it didn’t work. Luckily for her, since there was a Trojan horse from Gamma concealed in the attachment. The Bahraini regime had her in their crosshairs, and Martin Münch’s software helped them get at her.

“No matter how I communicate, they know,” Mr. Muhafdha said in an interview. “The regime has sophisticated electronic surveillance equipment allowing it to spy on everything we do by social media, e-mail and phone.”

Mohamed AlMaskati, head of the Bahrain Youth for Human rights society said over his account on twitter on 23 Jan 2013 that the pro-democracy tweep Nawal Attya (@NawalAtteya) has received the previous day (22 Jan 2013) threats on her mobile from anonymous using an international number. He has sent insults and threats to   @NawalAtteya on the text messages SMS and called her to stop participating in the peaceful protest and to stop tweeting or else she will get the same punishment as others (arrest).

Ayat al-Qurmazi told the BBC she did not regret reading her poems or taking Noura al-Khalifa to court, even though she had lost her place at college and was the target of online threats and abuse.

Policeman checking the private mobile content of a women driving past a checkpoint in area of Nuwaidrat, 1 Jan 2013. This act was widely practiced during the national safety status period in 2011 but continued at some checkpoints. Some people were arrested and sentenced in 2011 by military courts because of their “anti-government” mobile content. Check Freedom House 2011 report: Freedom on the net. 

After Bahrain’s police “Slap” video went viral the Minister of Interior issued a statement in which he asked that “anyone who films such an event should report it immediately” to the authorities. Two days later, and in contrast with such statements, many were shocked at the news of the arrest of a photojournalist.