A prominent Shiite cleric in Bahrain who led a now-shuttered opposition party was acquitted Thursday of spying charges with two colleagues, marking a rare victory for activists in the island kingdom amid a yearslong clampdown on dissent.

On the eve of the sentencing verdict of opposition leader and Al-Wefaq Secretary-General Sheikh Ali Salman, activists and tweeters demanded the authorities to stop his trial and release him under the hashtag #FreeSheikhAli, stressing on his national patriotic stances.

Israeli media outlets reported a Bahraini official as saying that “Bahrain does not view Israel as an enemy,” stressing that “Bahrain will be first Gulf state to form ties with Israel.”

Bahraini High Court acquitted on Thursday opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman as well as Al-Wefaq senior officials, Sheikh Hassan Sultan, and Ali Al-Aswad of the charge of "colluding with Qatar."

More than 30 human rights organizations from 25 states around the world called on the Bahraini authorities to drop all against opposition leader and Secretary-General of Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, Sheikh Ali Salman.

Amnesty International reiterated its call to immediately release opposition leader and Secretary-General of Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, Sheikh Ali Salman.

The High Appeals Court upheld a 7-year jail verdict against an appellant who participated in an assembly, attacked policemen and set fire to a generator affiliated with the police in Al-Ekr.

The Iran-aligned Houthi movement in Yemen said it launched a missile targeting a facility of oil firm Aramco in Asir in southwestern Saudi Arabia, Houthi-run media al-Masirah TV and SABA reported on Tuesday.

Iran's nuclear chief said on Tuesday that Europe's proposals to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal after the U.S. withdrawal from the pact were not satisfying for Tehran, warning that all sides would lose if Iran is sidelined by the West, the IRNA state news agency said.

Saudi Arabia detained two more women's rights advocates earlier this month and imposed a travel ban on several others in an ongoing crackdown in the conservative Muslim kingdom, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday.

The American “The New Yorker” magazine published an extensive investigation on a PR British company that used to provide services to Bahraini and other oppressive governments to internationally whitewash their reputation.

UK Minister of State for the Middle East and North Africa, Alistair Burt, said that the UK government raised the case of opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman at a senior level with the Government of Bahrain, on the eve of the verdict issuance against him over claims of colluding with Qatar.

The Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society praised the humane stance of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Prince Zeid Ra'ad Al-Hussein, during the opening meeting of the 38th Session of the Human Rights Council. Al-Wefaq stressed that the fact that he placed Bahrain on the main agenda of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) shows the high professionalism of the Commissioner and the OHCHR in assessing the deteriorating human rights situation in Bahrain.

National Health Regulatory Authority suspended the services of International Hospital of Bahrain until further notice with an agreement with its owner. All the internal sections of the hospital were closed, inducing that operations, X-Ray, laboratory and external clinics, until guaranteeing the needed maintenance that conform with the conditions and standards that should be available in health institutions.

A celebration was held yesterday (June 18, 2018) in Paris on the occasion of granting the prominent Bahraini human rights defender Nabeel Rajab honorary citizenship of the city.

Three Bahraini human rights organizations welcomed the speech given by Zeid bin Ra’ad Al-Hussein, the current United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in the UN Human Rights Council’s 38th opening session, about the human rights situation in Bahrain. The organizations expressed gratitude that Bahrain’s situation is still among the priorities of human rights issues followed by the high commissioner in the Arab nation.

Recent official numbers showed that there are about 850 children with diabetes in Bahrain and that the total number of infected people approached 53 thousand, with over have of them women.

Chief prosecutor revealed that they received a notice stating that 3 children physically assaulted a child after school hours, while a fourth companion filmed the incident and spread it online.

The General Directorate of Traffic said that it arrested a Bahrain (26 years) and referred him to the Public Prosecution for making stunts with a vehicle that has no plates.

The Gulf Institute for Democracy and Human Rights (GIDHR) addressed U.S President Donald Trump, in a letter issued yesterday (Monday 18 June 2018), on the eve of Sheikh Ali Salman’s trial on 21st of June 2018.