The High Appeals Court upheld life term sentences against two suspects in a political case and fined them 500 BD.

The US State Department condemned human rights violations in Bahrain, which include arbitrary arrest, detention of political prisoners and torture.

Minister of Transportation and Telecommunications Kamal Ahmed said that Bahrain decided to bar Boeing 737 MAX from using Bahrain International Airport or flying in the Kingdom's airspace.

A Bahrain court sentenced opposition leader Ebrahim Sharif to six months in jail and 500 BD fine to stop the execution of sentence after a Bahraini court convicted him of "insulting president of a foreign country".

Ten Saudi women detained last year in a sweeping crackdown on activists appeared in court on Wednesday, an official said, intensifying scrutiny of the kingdom's human rights record.

I don’t know what to write. I address you on the twentieth anniversary of your coronation and I am totally surprised at your speech on democracy, freedom, justice, co-existence and similar terms and concepts.

Contradictory news is being released by the Ministry of Electricity in Bahrain, which cuts off electricity in poverty-stricken areas, depriving those citizens, who cannot provide their basic needs, of electricity while turning a blind eye to the collection of arrears of hotels, ministries and wealthy members of the ruling family.

Bahrain on Wednesday sentenced a liberal opposition figure to six months in jail for tweeting criticsm of Sudan's president who has been facing protests against his rule, rights groups said.

The Parliament approved on Tuesday (March 12, 2019) an urgent proposal to scrap a flexible work permit scheme for foreigner workers.

The Bahraini Football Association (BFA) issued a statement supporting the decision of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to cancel the Qatari "beIN sport" channels' monopoly on Asian continent matches and competitions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

he High Criminal Appeals Court rejected the appeals of two suspsects in case of attacking Al-Khamis police station with Molotov in September 2013 and as a result burning parts of it. 22 suspects were convicted in the case and sentenced to 15 years in jail. The court upheld the verdicts against the fifteenth and nineteenth suspects.

The First High Criminal Appeals Court upheld prison verdict against an appellant out of 13 suspects over assembling case in Abu Saiba.

A refugee footballer who fled Bahrain and was held in a Thai prison for months during a tense extradition stand-off between Australia and the Gulf state was granted Australian citizenship on Tuesday.

The Australian authorities granted, on Monday (March 11, 2019), citizenship to the Bahraini refugee football player Hakeem Al-Araibi.

The Public Prosecution referred a sales manager in a shop to an urgent trial over charge of applying the Value Added Tax (VAT) to the goods of the shop and customers without registering his entity in the official VAT system and set Thursday as a day to commence his trial.

Deputy Attorney General and SIU member Mohammed Yousif Al-Zubari said that the unit initiated intensive investigations into the case into that case of the Moroccan inmate who passed away last month while in prison and reached that he died to a severe disease.

The Bahraini footballer Hakeem Al-Araibi was granted the Australian citizenship on Tuesday.

The Bahrain state budget for the years 2019-2020 showed no increase in non-oil revenues, which confirms the government's failure to diversify sources of income and rely on oil revenues.

The government has referred a bill as a matter of urgency that would allow the government to benefit from the surplus of the Unemployment Insurance Fund to fund the voluntary retirement program.

The Bahraini state general budget for the fiscal years 2019 and 2020 estimated the state revenues at BD 5 billion and 619 million, and BD 6 billion and 939 million, thus reaching a deficit rate of 4% for the year 2019, amounting to BD 708 million and 4.9% for the year 2020, amounting to 613 million dinars.