The head of the monitoring and documentation unit at the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) said that the Bahraini authorities released poet Abdulhussein Salman.

Bahraini Supreme Court of Appeals upheld a court of first instance's verdict against 12 suspects over charges of burning tires and pouring oil near Al-Nasr Club in Juffair.

Kytos Cultural Center said it will launch a book entitled "Plea of Dignity", which comprises the plea entered by Sheikh Nimr Al-Nimr, on Friday (April 29, 2016) in the Lancaster Hotel Hazmieh, in the Lebanese capital, Beirut.

The UN special envoy to Yemen said Tuesday that warring parties have agreed to a framework for talks that will open the way for extensive negotiations to end the conflict.

A car bomb killed at least seven people yesterday near the Shiite shrine of Sayyida Zeinab, south of the Syrian capital Damascus, state television reported.

A Bahraini Court of Appeals upheld the court of first instance's verdict, sentencing 3 suspects to 5 years in prison. The court also sentenced another suspect to 3 years and acquitted 2 others over charges of assembling and burning tires.

The Bahraini authorities released a child whom they summoned for interrogation over the killing of one of the Ministry of Interior's members, which the ministry announced last week.

A Bahraini Salafist cleric who has close ties with the Bahraini ruling Al Khalifa family claimed that it is time to "harvest the heads of Iran's agents," an accusation which is often raised by the Bahraini regime and its supporters against dissenters in the country.

The Bahraini authorities arrested on Sunday (April 24, 2016) poet Abdulhussein Salman over taking part in an opposition oratorical festival held on Saturday (April 23, 2016).

The Bahrain Forum for Human Rights (BFHR) stated that the Bahraini security authorities arbitrarily arrested 39 citizens, adding that 66 others were subjected to torture and ill-treatment during the third week of April, 2016.

Footage posted by human rights activists online shows Interior Ministry policemen shooting sound grenades and tear gas canisters into a house in Bahrain's Shehrkan.

The organizing committee of the international two-day conference on "Persecution of Shia in Bahrain", organized by Salam for Democracy and Human Rights and No Peace without Justice, launched a book revealing human rights violations practiced against the Shia in Bahrain.

Advocate General, Acting Attorney General to the Terror Crime Prosecution, Hamad Al-Buainain, announced that the fifth criminal court issued its verdict against four suspects accused of "resisting policemen on duty, acquiring arms and ammunition for a terrorist purpose.

A Bahraini court sentenced a policeman (29 years old) and a inmate (40 years old) at the Reform and Rehabilitation Center (Jaw Prison) to 3 years in prison after convicting them of bribery and smuggling banned items (Viagra and nuts) into prison.

Bahrain's Fifth High Criminal Court sentenced 16 suspects accused of assembling, acquiring Molotov cocktails and starting fire in Sanabis to 7 years in prison and ordered the confiscation of seized items.

Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa said that Bahrain has compelling evidence of Iran's flagrant interference in its internal affairs.

The British paper, The Independent said "that British MPs are to investigate allegations of illegal weapons sales at British weapons fairs after a judge ruled there was "credible" evidence of wrongdoing at the biggest event in the arms trade's calendar "DSEI arms fair".

Bahrain's Public Prosecution said that it concluded its investigations "in the case of a preacher banned from delivering sermons (Sheikh Mohammad Al-Mansi) in violation of the ban issued against him, and concerning some content of his speech which was considered a criminal offense."

Lawyer Mohammad Al-Jishi posted on his personal Twitter account that the King of Bahrain Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa issued a royal pardon, releasing detainee Tagi Al-Maidan, who holds the American passport and is sentenced to 10 years in prison.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office said that Bahrain achieved progress on human rights in Bahrain throughout 2015, although challenges remain, indicating that the Government of Bahrain continued to take steps to implement its human rights and political reform agenda.