A Bahraini court decided to release 140 individuals arrested in Diraz raid carried out by Bahraini authorities to crush the protest outside the highest religious leader in the country, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, on May 21, 2017, that left 5 killed citizens and hundreds of detainees and injured.

An institute linked to Exeter University in Britain opened an exhibition called “Remembering the dead in Bahraini Shia cemeteries”. The exhibition is organized by Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies and supervised by Professor Timothy Insoll, archaeologist and Professor of African and Islamic archaeology at the Institute, and it contains photos, and traces from heritage of Shiite cemeteries in Bahrain.

Jassim Al-Asfour, father of martyr Yassine Al-Asfour (15 years), one of the Bahraini uprising victims who died after inhaling large amount of tear gas on January 20, 2012, said that the sixth anniversary of his son’s martyrdom represents “a lot of pain and shows the childhood suffering in this country”.

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company said it is pleased that Bahrain’s deal to buy 16 F-16s worth over $2.3 billion will guarantee “pass to keep F-16 production line open for the next three to five years”.

Bahraini police said Sunday they had arrested 47 people on charges linked to terrorism, including plots to assassinate "public figures", as well as filing charges against another 290.

Saudi Arabia has asked banks for proposals to refinance its $10 billion international syndicated loan and to help the sovereign raise funds through other means, the country’s debt management office said on Sunday.

Saudis expressed their anger at the political naturalization process in Bahrain, indicating that naturalized Bahrainis are benefitting from being treated as Gulf nationals in the Saudi labor market.

Journalist Bill Law strongly criticized British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, noting how Johnson has plenty to say on Brexit and renewing ties 'East of Suez', but strangely a statement condemning the kingdom's persecution of its Shia majority is notable in its absence.

Bahraini High Criminal Court of Appeal rejected the appeal of a Bahraini convicted among nine others of planting and detonating a bomb near Sitra Post.

Minister of Shura Council and House of Representatives Affairs Ghanim Al-Buainain said that the total number of Bahrainis working under the temporary system until the date of issuing this response is 44 employees only.

Leader of Kuwaiti opposition and former MP Musallam Al-Barrak turned himself in to Kuwaiti authorities to serve a nine-year prison sentence for what is known as the “the storming of the council” case.

SALAM for Democracy & Human Rights issued a new report entitled "Kingdom of Persecution". The report aimed at monitoring human rights violations committed against Shiite clerics in Bahrain between the years 2011 and 2017.

A Bahraini MP (who refrained from mentioning his name) told Akhbar Al-Khaleej newspaper that “the current situation for the budget doesn’t allow to approve any new privileges to the citizens, whether on terms of doubling high cost allowance or adopting new allowance.”

Saudi Arabia’s delegation to the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos next week will be led by state minister Ibrahim al-Assaf, who was released from detention related to an anti-corruption purge in November, Saudi sources said.

A delegation from the Bahraini House of Representatives visited the Republic of Iraq in an official visit, during which it met Iraqi President Fuad Masum, Foreign Minister Ibrahim Al-Jaafari and Iraqi Parliament Speaker Salim Al-Jabouri.

Bahraini prominent Shiite cleric, Sayed Abdullah Al-Ghuraifi, said that the “high cost of livelihood” has become a terrifying ghost hunting the people of this country affecting all its sects and components.

First High Criminal Court sentenced a defendant to seven years in prison instead of 10, after convicting him among five others of placing a fake bomb in the Tubli area.

The Parliament failed in its meeting yesterday to pass an urgent proposal, stating that the government should abide by Royal directives regarding agreement with the legislative authority on redirecting subsidies to beneficiaries and suspend the decision to raise petrol prices until consensus is achieved.

Human Rights Watch said on Thursday (January 18) in its 2018 annual report that Bahrain continued its downward spiral on human rights during 2017 as the government harassed, intimidated, imprisoned, and prosecuted human rights defenders and their relatives.

The United Arab Emirates has lodged a complaint with the United Nations to say Qatari war planes intercepted its civilian aircraft in an unjustified escalation of a regional dispute, state news agency WAM said on Thursday.