Arbitrary retaliatory sentences were issued on October 30, 2017, against 18 Bahrainis accused in a case known as “Al-Basta Group”. The court issued life sentences against 8 defendants, 15-year jail terms against 7 others and revoked the citizenships of 14.

The former minister Samira Rajab decided to re-launch a civilian case she has already filed against Al-Ayam newspaper and its editor-in-chief.

Bahrain Opposition Bloc in London expressed its full rejection to all the political verdicts and trials held in Bahrain since over 7 years against prisoners of conscience in Bahrain, stressing on the necessity to stop these military courts that issued collective death sentences that are considered the first of their kind in Bahrain’s history.

The High Criminal Appeals Court commuted the 3-year jail sentence of two brothers who attacked two policemen to 2 years only. The two policemen had came to arrest one of the bothers who is sentenced to 5 years in jail over robbery case.

A Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen has killed 109 civilians in air strikes in the past 10 days, including 54 people at a crowded market and 14 members of one family on a farm, the top U.N. official in the country said on Thursday.

Two sons of Saudi Arabia’s late King Abdullah have been released from detention at Riyadh’s Ritz-Carlton hotel, days after nearly two dozen other detainees in the kingdom’s two-month-old anti-corruption campaign were also freed.

The Ministry of Interior said that it found a dead body in a deserted building in Muqaba.

The High Appeals Court upheld a verdict issued against defendants accused of joining “Al-Wafa Islamic Party”. The first instance court had sentenced the first suspect to 10 years in prison and the second suspect to 7 years, revoked their citizenships and acquitted the third one of the charges brought against him.

Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society condemned the Bahraini regime’s insistence on trying opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman over charges of “colluding with Qatar” based on a US-Qatari initiative to put an end to the crisis.

Customs President Ahmed bin Hamad Al Khalifa said that based on the continuous cooperation and coordination with Saudi customs, the fast track was activated to end all customs procedures for exports of top 10 companies of national goods in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.

The prices of tobacco products, soft drinks and energy drinks will double as the Excise Tax on Selected Items Law will come into effect this Saturday, the Finance Ministry said. The new levies include 100% tax on tobacco products and 50% on soft drinks.

Bahrain’s high criminal court adjourned on Thursday (December 28, 2017) the trial of opposition leader and Al-Wefaq Secretary-General Sheikh Ali Salman over charge of "communicating with Qatar" until January 4, 2018, to listen to witnesses.

Middle East Monitor website said that some 25 Bahraini organizations including political associations, civil society groups and various intellectual and political trends have come together to condemn a visit by what they called a “suspicious” delegation to Israel.

A Bahrain court on Wednesday sentenced 10 Shiites to life in jail for forming "terror" groups and manufacturing explosives and bombs, a judicial source said.

Ibrahim Serhan, legal advisor in Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, commented on the verdicts issued on Monday (25/12/2017) by the military judiciary in Bahrain saying “the lawyers did not expect the death sentences since the indictment list and the military prosecution adaptation also accepted by the high military court, i.e. assassination attempt charge, was only brought against the first defendant, while the rest of the defendants were accused of inciting and supporting the first suspect”.

Statistics issued by Central Information Agency stated that the number of vehicles in Bahrain reached 700 thousand until 2016; i.e. a 52% increase during the past 10 years, starting from 2006 (337 thousand vehicles).

Assistant Under-Secretary for agriculture affairs in the Ministry of Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning Dr. Ibrahim Yusuf denied the presence of highly contagious strain of bird flu “H5N8” in Bahrain, stressing that the directorate took all precautions and measures, adding that there is a special operation room to follow up the incident.

The Fourth High Criminal Court presided over by judge Khalifa Al-Dahrani issued life term sentences against 10 defendants accused in “Nuwaidrat warehouse” case.

With the beginning of 2018, Diesel prices will increase according to timeline for reconsidering fuel prices. Diesel prices will increase to 160 fils per liter and to 180 fils with the beginning of 2019.

Civil Defence extinguished a fire in a 2 floor building in Manama suq.