Joint statement by Ministers of Finance of Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Bahrain said reviewed options for providing necessary support to enhance the stability of public finance.

A sports website covered the news of the hunger strike launched by the Bahraini detained athlete, Jiu-Jitsu medalist, Mohammad Mirza, in solidarity with a fellow prisoner and opposition leader Hasan Mushaima.

The British Independent newspaper said that Bahraini activist Ali Mushaima who has been on hunger strike for four weeks to protest against the Bahraini government's treatment of his imprisoned father has asked Britain's Queen for help.

The Bahraini ambassador in Moscow, Al-Saati, went on to celebrate his so-called fake doctorate degree on the front pages of daily newspapers.

U.S. President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen testified on Tuesday that Trump had directed him to commit a crime by arranging payments ahead of the 2016 presidential election to silence two women who said they had affairs with Trump.

The prominent Bahraini imprisoned dissident Hasan Mushaima said in a phone call he made with his son Ali Mushaima, on Sunday (August 19, 2018), that orders to harass him and harass political prisoners started with the appointment of the new prison administration and that he believes that these orders are from “orders from above”, in a reference to the senior leaders in the authority.

Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor has sought the death penalty against five human rights activists, including a prominent female rights defender, campaigners said Wednesday.

President Donald Trump said in an interview aired Thursday that the US economy would collapse if he were impeached.

The Bahraini security authorities arrested a youth, who was injured in Diraz attack in May 2017, at a checkpoint.

King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa ordered Royal Charity Organization (RCO) to “prepare and send relief materials and providing assistance to affected Indians.”

Activist Ibtisam Al-Saegh issued an urgent appeal from a mother of a Bahraini detainee suffering from Sickle Cell Disease, in which she demanded revealing the fate of her son and allowing her to meet him after she lost contact with him 13 days ago, after being transferred to the recovery room.

An official in the National Committee for the Evaluation of Academic Qualifications affiliated with the Ministry of Education said that "procedures for the examination of scientific certificates and qualifications are to begin immediately after Eid holiday through a specialized committee."

10 human rights organizations, including Amnesty International and Index on Censorship, issued a statement in which they said that the Bahraini human rights mechanisms have largely failed to properly address concerns raised on behalf of Hassan Mushaima, stressing that "his life remains at risk".

Responding to press statements of Ministry of Education in which it stressed that it had referred the certificates' fakers to the Public Prosecution, the Prosecution said that it has not received any notifications regarding the issue of fake academic degrees.

President of Bahrain Society of Engineers Dheya Tawfiqi said that the society has put an urgent mechanism to study and review the university certificates and qualifications of about 2200 members registered in the society.

The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in the UN considered the deprivation of liberty of Nabeel Rajab, in contravention of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and due to discrimination based on political or other opinion and on his position as a leading human rights defender

Nabeel Rajab sent a letter from his prison in Jaw Central Prison in which he congratulated people on Eid Al-Adha. He said in a letter he published on his own Twitter account on Tuesday (August 21, 2018) "I apologize to my family and my daughter for not being able to spend this happy day with them. This wasn't my choice."

An Egyptian dancer, holder of Bahraini passport, candidate for Bahraini elections said that she filed a complaint to the Bahraini Public Prosecutor against what she described as a “vicious media campaign”

Twitter account of Nabeel Rajab reported that detainee in Jaw Prison Mohammad Mirza, Bahrain’s champion in the Jiu Jitsu sport, started on Saturday (August 18, 2018) an open hunger strike in solidarity with prominent dissident Hasan Mushaima, who has been denied treatment by authorities since one a half years, despite suffering from cancer and chronic diseases.

The High Appeals Court upheld a one-year jail term against a political prisoner accused of putting hoax bomb in A’ali.