Commenting on the verdict issued against opposition leader, Sheikh Ali Salman, Qatar denied its involvement in what it’s known as Qatar spy case and called on Bahrain to deal with the international community more seriously.

Bahrain’s religious scholars stressed that “the regime has lost its legitimacy and has sentenced itself to a life separation from people on the day in which its corrupt judges and judiciary sentenced his Eminence Sheikh Ali Salman, Sheikh Hasan Sultan and Mr. Ali Al-Aswad to life in jail.”

The Islamic Republic of Iran condemned the verdict sentencing prominent opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman and two former Al-Wefaq MPs to life in prison.

Opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman commented on the verdict sentencing him to life in jail saying “Allah suffices me, for He is the best disposer of affairs”. This came in a phone call with his family.

Hezbollah condemned the “unjust sentence” handed down by the Bahraini regime's courts to life imprisonment of the head of the Bahraini opposition, Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society's Secretary General, Sheikh Ali Salman, as well as the former members of the parliament Sheikh Hasan Sultan and Ali Al-Aswad.

The Public Prosecution ordered on Saturday (November 3, 2018) the arrest of Rabab Hasan for 7 days pending investigation.

Amnesty International said the Appeals court’s decision against opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman demonstrates the Bahraini authorities' relentless and unlawful efforts to silence any form of dissent.

The Bahrain Forum for Human Rights (BFHR) called on member states of the Human Rights Council to freeze Bahrain's membership in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which the government had joined under Law No. 56 of 2006 issued on August 12, 2006.

Bahrain sentenced the head of the country's Shiite opposition movement to life in prison Sunday for spying for rival Gulf state Qatar in a ruling rights groups have called a travesty.

A Bahraini court on Sunday ordered life sentences for three senior opposition members, overturning a previous acquittal on charges of spying for Qatar in what an international rights group called a “travesty of justice”.

The National Islamic Al-Wefaq Society confirmed that the Bahraini judiciary has become a tool in the hands of the ruling authority. "Issuing a life sentence against the opposition leader after a previous acquittal ruling reflects the magnitude of chaos and subordination, which is no secret to anyone,” it said.

President of SALAM for Democracy and Human Rights, Jawad Fayrouz, said today that the ruling against opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman and the two former MPs of the opposition bloc, Sheikh Hassan Sultan and Ali Al-Aswad, is an act of "political revenge with distinction.”

SALAM for Democracy and Human Rights said that “the verdict issued against the leader of the opposition, based on the US-Gulf mediation, has been made in an unfair trial and by an non-independent judiciary, but rather by a tool of repression used by the authorities in Bahrain.”

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister Alistair Burt said that he’s very concerned by the life sentence handed down by the Appeals Court of Bahrain today to Sheikh Ali Salman.

A number of dissidents and activists in Bahrain expressed their solidarity with the Secretary-General of Al-Wefaq Sheikh Ali Salman on the eve of his verdict was set to be announced, as well as prominent opposition figures Sheikh Hassan Sultan and Ali Al-Aswad on charges of "communicating with Qatar."

At least four people were arrested by the Bahraini security authorities on Saturday (November 3, 2018), including Ammar Hamdan (from the town of Karbabad), the brother of martyrs Mustafa and Mohammed Hamdan.

Head of the Legislative and Fatwa Authority, the executive director of the 2018 elections, Nawaf Abdullah Hamza, announced that the final tables for the candidates of the parliamentary and municipal elections will be announced on Sunday.

Saudi authorities have released the brother of billionaire Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal after nearly a year in detention, family members said Saturday, as the kingdom faces international pressure over journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder.

India and other leading oil buyers will benefit from the waiver the United States has granted them from Iran sanctions, the South Asian nation’s oil minister said on Saturday.

The Iraqi Foreign Ministry rejected on Saturday what it called US interference in its affairs after the US embassy issued a statement telling neighboring Iran to respect Iraq’s sovereignty allow demobilization of Shi’ite militias.