Congressmen James P. McGovern and Randy Hultgren, Co-Chairs of the bipartisan Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in the U.S. House of Representatives, released a letter last week asking the King of Bahrain to take all necessary steps to ensure that the upcoming elections for the Council of Representatives of Bahrain’s National Assembly meet international standards for free and fair elections.

The Jaffari Endowments Directorate issued a circular in which it called not to use the mosques and obsequies in the electoral propaganda.

The European Union criticized the life sentence issued by the appeals court in Bahrain against Secretary-General of the dissolved Al-Wefaq political society, who is already serving a 4-year jail sentence.

Human rights groups monitored the arrest of 55 citizens within 9 days only

American journalist Nicholas Kristof called to pay attention to human rights situations in Bahrain, describing what is happening in Bahrain as “appalling repression”.

The German authorities are to extradite Bahraini citizen to his country following 3 years of residency.

Bahrain announced arresting a cell involved in forging several passports, travel stamps, entry visas and resident permits of Gulf and foreign countries.

The British “The Financial Times” newspaper said that the life term ruling by the Supreme Court of Appeal against Sheikh Ali Salman, head of the Al-Wefaq, and two other members of the movement, risks heightening tensions ahead of the November 24 polls.

Dozens of Filipinos received flexible permits granted by Labour Market Regulatory Authority to the illegal workers, after receiving financial support from the governments of their countries.

The Swiss SonntagsZeitung newspaper said that Bahrain used F-5 planes to carry out attacks in Yemen

American journalist Nicholas Kristof called on the US President Donald Trump to pressure Saudi Arabia and Bahrain to respect human rights.

Bahraini Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected the statement issued by the Government of Qatar which condemned mentioning its name in the “Spy Case” in which opposition leader, Sheikh Ali Salman, is accused and sentenced to life in jail.

Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) strongly condemned the ruling issued on Sunday (November 4, 2018) sentencing Al-Wefaq Secretary-General Sheikh Ali Salman and former 2 MPs, Sheikh Hasan Sultan and Ali Al-Aswad, to life in prison.

Al-Wefaq former MP Ali Al-Aswad said that “the life term sentences are the clearest examples on farce of justice in Bahrain”.

General Secretariat of the General Conference of the Arab parties issued a statement condemning the court of appeals verdict against Sheikh Ali Salman, one of the prominent opposition leaders.

Commenting on the verdict issued against opposition leader, Sheikh Ali Salman, Qatar denied its involvement in what it’s known as Qatar spy case and called on Bahrain to deal with the international community more seriously.

Bahrain’s religious scholars stressed that “the regime has lost its legitimacy and has sentenced itself to a life separation from people on the day in which its corrupt judges and judiciary sentenced his Eminence Sheikh Ali Salman, Sheikh Hasan Sultan and Mr. Ali Al-Aswad to life in jail.”

The Islamic Republic of Iran condemned the verdict sentencing prominent opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman and two former Al-Wefaq MPs to life in prison.

Opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman commented on the verdict sentencing him to life in jail saying “Allah suffices me, for He is the best disposer of affairs”. This came in a phone call with his family.

Hezbollah condemned the “unjust sentence” handed down by the Bahraini regime's courts to life imprisonment of the head of the Bahraini opposition, Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society's Secretary General, Sheikh Ali Salman, as well as the former members of the parliament Sheikh Hasan Sultan and Ali Al-Aswad.