Family of Sayed Alawi Hussain, who was sentenced to death in a military court, said that they had received phone calls from him informing them about his first family visit scheduled for next monday.

Court revoked one-month prison term issued against businessman Samih Ibrahim Rajab for insulting Minister of Industry and Commerce, acquitting him of libel and slander charges.

Five members of the Bahraini Parliament submitted a new request for investigating the violations of the Jaafaria Endowments (Waqf) Administration.

Human Rights Watch accused Saudi Arabia on Thursday of violating international humanitarian law in Yemen and stepping up arrests and prosecutions of activists seeking reform or voicing peaceful dissent.

Amnesty International launched an urgent appeal to interfere to release leader of Haq Movement Hassan Mushaima (70 years) and provide him access to adequate healthcare, after news about his health deterioration.

Bahrain Forum for Human Rights (BFHR) said that it monitored the continuation of enforced disappearance of 15 Bahraini citizens from 7 Bahraini villages: Diraz, Dair, Sitra, Bilad Al-Qadeem, Samaheej and Jurdab.

The Cassation Court rejected the appeals of 4 defendants accused of joining Saraya Al-Ashtar and ruled the inadmissibility of the appeal of the fifth suspect, in a case that included 12 convicts whose sentences range between life sentence and 7 years in prison, as well as the revocation of their citizenships.

The Electricity and Water Authority (EWA) said that the electricity production cost is 30 Fils/KW, however it is subsidized and sold at 3 Fils only. The authority added that the water production cost is 750 Fils/m2, however it is sold at 70 Fils only.

The Fifth Minor Criminal Court issued on Wednesday (January 17, 2018) a 3-year jail term against a Bahraini (52 years) over insulting a Bahraini judge and threatening to kill him, after the judge bound the Bahraini man to pay 402 BD for an Asian worker, who used to work for the man, and to issue him an end of service certificate.

Bahrain sent a memorandum to the UN Security Council in which it denied claims that military aircraft belonging to the United Arab Emirates violated the Qatari airspace.

Bahrain Attorney General Ali Fadl Al-Buainain stated that the total number of cases received in 2017 by the Public Prosecution amounted to 84,442.

The Bahraini FM, who forgot or acted as if he has forgotten that more than 4,000 freedom-seeking prisoners are languishing behind bars in Bahrain, began criticizing the Qatari authorities for their human rights record.

Family of opposition leader, detainee and death convict Hassan Mushaima warned that his health is deteriorating, indicating that it received a call from him stating that the sugar level in his blood reached 26.

The British human rights Reprieve organization urged, in a statement it published on its website, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson to intervene to halt repression in Bahrain, including the planned execution of political protesters.

In a first comment made by an official party on the 2-year jail term verdict issued by cassation court against Nabeel Rajab over television interviews, the European Union called on the Bahraini government to release prominent human rights defender Rajab for humanitarian grounds.

Humiliation is not only practiced against political prisoners in Bahrain, it is also the treatment that families of prisoners receive during visits.

The EU will remove Panama, South Korea and six other countries from its recently unveiled tax haven blacklist in a quick reversal that drew criticism from activists.

Sheikh Hasan Sultan was among the pioneers of the initiative who drafted a roadmap out of the political crisis that hit the country in the 1990s.

A ballistic missile fired by Yemen’s armed Houthi group towards Saudi Arabia’s southern Jizan region was shot down by Saudi forces on Tuesday, Saudi state TV Ekhbariya reported.

Qatar Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani held talks in Turkey on Monday with his chief ally President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as tensions again surged between the emirate and its regional foes.