Detainee Yaser Al-Moemen, brother of martyr Ali Al-Moemen, started a hunger strike yesterday (Thursday, October 26, 2017) after the Dry Dock Prison authorities prevented him from receiving the adequate treatment.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and TV5-Monde will award their 2017 Press Freedom Prize on 7 November. 18 nominees are competing in 3 categories.

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) said that the BCHR President Nabeel Rajab was transferred to Jaw prison on Wednesday (October 25, 2017).

Bahraini Foreign Ministry added 13 individuals and entities on its terrorist blacklist, classifying them as leaders and funders of ISIS and Al-Qaeda in Yemen, including a supermarket.

Qatar has signed 36 worker protection agreements with countries that provide much of its labour force, state media reported on Wednesday, weeks before the International Labour Organisation is to decide whether to investigate it for worker abuse.

The Public Prosecution in Bahrain referred a number of Asian nationals to trial over charges of money laundering on October 25, 2017.

The Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism Zayed Al-Zayani denied what the Reuters news agency quoted as saying that the dispute with Qatar would not be long-term, which is a positive remark, inconsistent with the government's stance.

The National Health Regulatory Authority (NHRA) started investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Ali Al-Jadid, from Bilad Al-Qadeem, who had undergone a gastric sleeve surgery in Al-Salmaniya Medical Complex last May.

Head of healthcare facilities in the National Health Regulatory Authority (NHRA) Dr. Maha Al-Kuwari said that the NHRA, in cooperation with Health Ministry- public health laboratory being a reference lab accredited by the World Health Organization- evaluated all the results and works of labs found in the Kingdom of Bahrain.

Bahrain’s central bank governor said on Thursday that stricter international bank rules, known as Basel III, had gone too far and banks had been burdened with too much regulation.

The Sixth High Criminal Appeals Court rejected an appeals of 6 convicts out of 7 accused of setting fire and pouring oil in Al-Sahla street last Adha Eid. The court upheld a 3-year jail term verdict against each of the suspects whose ages range between 17 and 25 years.

The Sixth High Criminal Appeals Court upheld a verdict issued against a Bahraini electrical technician who used his experience to manufacture a fake bomb which he planted in Al-Ekr. The first-instance court had sentenced him to 5 years in prison and ordered the confiscation of seized items.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi held talks with key ally Iran on Thursday as his forces launched an offensive against the Islamic State group's last bastion in the country.

Iran’s defense capabilities are not negotiable, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday in remarks made previously but which now come amid increased pressure from the U.S. government over Tehran’s ballistic missile program.

Neutral Switzerland’s embassies in Riyadh and Tehran have signed agreements to represent Iranian interests in Saudi Arabia and Saudi interests in Iran, the Swiss government said on Wednesday.

A telecom engineer forcibly disappeared by security forces a year ago will be among the first civilians to face a military court under an April 2017 constitutional amendment, Human Rights Watch said today.

Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa issued Edicts 32/2017 and 33/2017 on restructuring the National Committee for Standards and Metrology and on re-forming the Board of Directors of the Bahrain Internet Exchange (BIX).

A local newspaper confirmed on Wednesday (October 25, 2017) that Bahraini goalkeeper Hamood Sultan was arrested in way similar to that used in dealing with terrorists.

Bahrain's Court of Appeal upheld on Thursday (October 26, 2017) verdict dissolving National Democratic Action (Wa'ad) Society.

The Bahraini Prime Minister, Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, issued Edict 31/2017 restructuring the High Human Rights Coordination Committee.