Why the need to make such efforts to desperately “expose” Qatar, when the BICI report had already addressed in 2011 the fact that Qatar attempted to play the role of the mediator in the political crisis in Bahrain.

The Legislative and Legal Affairs Committee at the Council of Representatives in Bahrain approved a proposed law in its amended form, concerning adding a new article to the Decree Law No. (40) of 1999.

The executive regulation of Decree Law No. 25 of 2015 on the collection of construction cost and development of infrastructure, revealed that a BD 12 is imposed on each meter square of construction area.

Qatar's foreign minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, arrived in Kuwait on Monday to deliver a response to the demands of Arab states which have cut ties with it.

U.S. President Donald Trump spoke separately to the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar on Sunday to discuss his "concerns about the ongoing dispute" between Qatar and its Gulf and Arab neighbors, the White House said.

Bahraini Member of Parliament demanded that the dispute with Qatar not be resolved before the latter pays BD 15 billion (around $39 billion), as compensation for economic damages caused by Qatar’s “support of terrorism”.

Editor in Chief of Qatar’s Al-Arab newspaper, Abdullah al-Azba, said that Bahrain “does not have its independent decision”, saying, ““The most honest way to describe the island of Bahrain is the country of retweet.”

The Bahraini authorities arrested on Monday (July 3, 2017) Shiite cleric Sheikh Hani al-Banaa’ while he was visiting his detained son in Dry Dock Prison.

The government referred to the House of Representatives a bill to take 200 million BD from the Future Generation reserve fund.

The local Al-Ayam newspaper said that the government officially referred to the House of Representatives a bill to raise the ceiling of public debt to 13 billion BD, which is considered an unprecedented level.

Saudi Arabia and three allies accusing Qatar of supporting terrorism have agreed to a request by Kuwait to extend by 48 hours Sunday's deadline for Doha to comply, according to a joint statement on Saudi state news agency SPA.

Qatar's foreign minister will formally give Kuwait's ruler the country's response to demands by Saudi Arabia and other Arab allies that Doha cease its alleged support for terrorism, state news agency QNA said, without indicating what that reply may be.

A footage showed Deputy Speaker of the Council of Representatives Abdulhalim Murad and leader in the Salafist Al-Asalah society that has close ties with the Manama authorities chanting ISIS slogans threatening to kill Shia.

The Salafist Al-Asalah Society expressed support to the decision taken by Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates to sever ties with Qatar. The society said that it understands the reasons being closing the air, land and sea borders with Qatar after long years of the media policies that threaten the security and stability of the GCC states and glorify the dispute and incitement of people as well as lack of Qatar commitment to the agreement it signed in 2014.

Shura Council approved in it session on Sunday (July 2, 2017) a bill regarding alternative punishments and measures that allow the judge to issue alternative punishments, including community service, house arrest in a specific place, preventing from going to a place or specific places, undertaking not approach or contact persons or certain entities, submitting to electronic monitoring, attending rehabilitation and training programs, and repairing the caused damage.

“The time of Human Rights has ended,” is one of the most popular phrases that the Interior Ministry’s security interrogators have recently been saying repeatedly to peaceful activists in interrogation rooms.

Minister of Finance Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa said that the public debt has reached 9.1 billion BD until April and explained that the public debt constitutes 76% of the GDP for the year 2016.

The National Action Democratic Society (Wa’ad) filed an urgent lawsuit against the Ministry of Interior and police stations to reopen the society’s headquarters that the authorities forcibly closed.

Simon Henderson, the Baker fellow at The Washington Institute and director of the Institute's Gulf and Energy Policy Program, said that Qatar's father-emir, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, is still the driver of Qatari diplomacy.

Minister of Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning, Isa Khalaf, said that the number of construction permit requests received by the ministry during the past 5 years reached 69952 requests.