The Public Prosecution ordered on Saturday (November 3, 2018) the arrest of Rabab Hasan for 7 days pending investigation.

Amnesty International said the Appeals court’s decision against opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman demonstrates the Bahraini authorities' relentless and unlawful efforts to silence any form of dissent.

The Bahrain Forum for Human Rights (BFHR) called on member states of the Human Rights Council to freeze Bahrain's membership in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which the government had joined under Law No. 56 of 2006 issued on August 12, 2006.

Bahrain sentenced the head of the country's Shiite opposition movement to life in prison Sunday for spying for rival Gulf state Qatar in a ruling rights groups have called a travesty.

A Bahraini court on Sunday ordered life sentences for three senior opposition members, overturning a previous acquittal on charges of spying for Qatar in what an international rights group called a “travesty of justice”.

The National Islamic Al-Wefaq Society confirmed that the Bahraini judiciary has become a tool in the hands of the ruling authority. "Issuing a life sentence against the opposition leader after a previous acquittal ruling reflects the magnitude of chaos and subordination, which is no secret to anyone,” it said.

President of SALAM for Democracy and Human Rights, Jawad Fayrouz, said today that the ruling against opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman and the two former MPs of the opposition bloc, Sheikh Hassan Sultan and Ali Al-Aswad, is an act of "political revenge with distinction.”

SALAM for Democracy and Human Rights said that “the verdict issued against the leader of the opposition, based on the US-Gulf mediation, has been made in an unfair trial and by an non-independent judiciary, but rather by a tool of repression used by the authorities in Bahrain.”

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister Alistair Burt said that he’s very concerned by the life sentence handed down by the Appeals Court of Bahrain today to Sheikh Ali Salman.

A number of dissidents and activists in Bahrain expressed their solidarity with the Secretary-General of Al-Wefaq Sheikh Ali Salman on the eve of his verdict was set to be announced, as well as prominent opposition figures Sheikh Hassan Sultan and Ali Al-Aswad on charges of "communicating with Qatar."

At least four people were arrested by the Bahraini security authorities on Saturday (November 3, 2018), including Ammar Hamdan (from the town of Karbabad), the brother of martyrs Mustafa and Mohammed Hamdan.

Head of the Legislative and Fatwa Authority, the executive director of the 2018 elections, Nawaf Abdullah Hamza, announced that the final tables for the candidates of the parliamentary and municipal elections will be announced on Sunday.

Bahrain's Court of Appeals sentenced on Sunday (November 4, 2018) opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman and senior opposition officials Sheikh Hassan Sultan and Ali Al-Aswad to life in prison for "communicating with Qatar."

More than 8,000 government employees have applied for the voluntary retirement program to date, reported the Bahrain News Agency (BNA) on Saturday (November 3, 2018).

The municipal candidate for the second constituency in the northern province, and municipal candidate for the tenth constituency in the southern province won by acclamation.

Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa arrived in the Saudi capital Riyadh for a meeting with Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud on bilateral relations as well as regional and international developments, reported the official Bahrain News Agency (BNA).

Deputy Secretary-General of Al-Menbar Islamic Society, political arm for Muslim Brotherhood, Nasser Al-Fadala addressed the Bahraini Minister of Foreign Affairs saying “if someone other than you said these words, we would have demanded to put him under law of “sympathizing” with enemies of nation.

Wa’ad former Secretary-General Ibrahim Sharif regretted the statements of Bahraini Minister of Foreign Affairs Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa in which he praised the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, considering that it is a “praise for the enemy on an ominous day”.

Bahraini Minister of Foreign Affairs Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa praised the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and said that “Mr.” Netanyahu has a clear position on the importance of establishing stability in the region. Al Khalifa said in a tweet on Thursday (November 2, 2018) “Despite controversy, Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu has a clear position on the importance of establishing stability in the region and Saudi Arabia's role in achieving this stability.”

A local transportation company complained that it has not received its dues from the Ministry of Education since months, calling on Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa to intervene to solve the issue.