10 human rights organizations expressed their opposition to all policies and measures that target people because of their religion or sect and called on the authorities to guarantee equality for all.

The Bahraini Interior Minister Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa said that the security authorities arrested whom he described as “suspects” in the Karbabad incident, which the Ministry of Interior claimed to have killed one of its affiliates.

Sheikh Maytham Al-Salman said that the Bahraini “Public Prosecution decided to detain cleric Sheikh Mohammed Al-Mansi for a week over charges of inciting hatred and insulting the Ministry of Interior.”

Bahrain Mirror (AP): Bahrain says a police officer has been killed and two others were seriously wounded in a gasoline bomb attack in the tiny island kingdom.

Bahrain Mirror (Reuters): Attackers threw Molotov cocktails at a police patrol north of Bahrain's capital on Saturday, killing one officer and critically injuring two others, the interior ministry said.

10 human rights organizations called on civil society groups to take part in commemorating the national religious freedom day in Bahrain on April 17, 2016 via various media, legal and civil means.

The Bahraini office of Ombudsman said in a statement that it followed “the allegations published lately on some websites that an unknown woman was sexually assaulted in one of the Ministry of Interior’s administration offices.”

The US Department of State issued its 2015 annual report on human rights practices around the world, recording human rights violations committed in different countries including Bahrain.

The Supreme Appeals Court upheld the verdict issued against an appellant, convicted along with other suspects over charges of burning tires that caused a fire, sentencing him to three years in prison. This comes as a court of first instance sentenced 5 suspects to 15 years in prison and two others under 18 years of age (including the appellant) to 3.

The Supreme Appeals Court upheld the sentence issued against two appellants to imprison them for three years over charges of planting a hoax bomb in the Sitra area.

The Secretary-General of the National Democratic Action Society (Wa'ad) Radhi Al-Musawi said that "the financial support that the society was supposed to receive completely stopped in 2011."

The Bahraini Ministry of Justice and Islamic Affairs revealed the list of political societies that have received government support in 2015, which clearly shows that it has excluded opposition groups.

The main opposition group in Bahrain, Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, denied receiving any government benefits since May 2011.

Bahrain Mirror (AFP): The Gulf kingdom of Bahrain on Monday published a list of 68 Islamist groups it classified as "terrorist", the state news agency BNA said.

The local Bahraini Al-Wasat newspaper reported that more than 4,000 employees who work in the ready-made clothing industry in Bahrain risk losing their jobs by the end of the period of exemption from US customs duties by July, 2016.

The General Directorate of the Bahraini Interior Ministry's Anti-Corruption & Economic & Electronic Security Department announced that a suspect was taken into custody over charges of fundraising for producing a movie that "insults the [Prophet's] companions on social media."

11 non-governmental organizations called on the US President Barack Obama to help release imprisoned human rights activists in Gulf states, whose leaders are meeting in Saudi Arabia this month.

A Bahraini Appeals Court decided on Monday (April 11, 2016) to issue its verdict in the Al-Wefaq Secretary-General Sheikh Ali Salman's case on May 30.

Twenty-five human rights activists from the Middle East and North Africa sent an open letter to the US President Barack Obama, who will meet with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) States on April 21 in the Saudi capital Riyadh.

Clashes broke out between angry mourners and Bahraini security forces on Friday (April 8, 2016), after regime forces used tear gas and sound grenades to disperse hundreds of mourners participating in the final funeral procession of martyr Ali Abdulghani.