The General Directorate of Nationality, Passports and Residence Affairs in Bahrain said that it will unify visa forms issued as of November 1, 2018.

Heavy rains in Bahrain have led to power cuts and internet disruptions in some areas, local Al-Bilad newspaper reported.

Activists announced that the Dutch authorities extradite Ali Shuwaikh to the Bahraini authorities after it refused his asylum request.

The continuous and heavy rainfall has paralyzed traffic in Bahrain after water levels rose, swamping cars.

Education International’s Executive Board has named Jalila Al-Salman, as the recipient of the Mary Hatwood Futrell Human and Trade Union Rights Prize for her outstanding engagement and courage in promoting education for all.

32 British MPs have so far signed a petition deploring the degrading treatment of political prisoner and criticizing the ongoing arrest of Bahraini opposition leaders who were subjected to torture and unlawfully convicted by a military court in 2011.

The Bahraini Interior Minister accused on Friday (October 19, 2018) accounts managed by Iran of being behind the threats candidates of municipal and Parliamentary elections received.

Detainee Hani Ahmad Isa Marhoun announced starting a hunger strike in order to put an end to what he called "all violations and breaches in Bahraini prisons".

The Second High Criminal Court sentenced Al-Watan newspaper's editor-in-chief, Youssef Al-Binkhalil, to one month in jail while suspending the execution of the sentence with 100 BD bail, and replaced it with an alternative manual work penalty, in the case raised against him by the former MP Anas Buhendi over slander charges.

The Bahrain Forum for Human Rights (BFHR) issued its annual report, entitled " Chased without Protection: Silence, or Prison, Death, and Deportation” in which it monitored the human rights situation in Bahrain during 2017.

The Bahraini Public Prosecution referred Head of Ras Rumman obsequy Shaker Al-Majed and eulogy reciter Sayed Mahmoud Al-Wadaie to trial after accusing them of charges related to commemorating Ashura occasion. Human rights sources confirmed that the two were referred to the high criminal court about 2 weeks following their arrest.

Hmoud bin Abdullah Al Khalifa presented his credentials to President of the Republic of Yemen Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi as Riyadh-based Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Kingdom of Bahrain to the Republic of Yemen.

The Fourth High Criminal Court began hearing the case of 12 citizens (7 of whom are not arrested) accused of receiving training in the Iraqi Hezbollah camps.

The judge of the Southern Governorate Supervisory Committee, Ebrahim Al-Zayed, said that he had conducted many reading and writing exams to candidates who applied for municipal and parliamentary elections.

The Director-General of Anti-corruption and Economic and Electronic Security warned people to be aware of emails that asked them to register in an application with the name “Ebshir”.

Bahraini football player Hamood Sultan denied running for the upcoming Parliamentary elections.

The Bahraini Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society announced the launch of a slogan about boycotting the 2018 parliamentary and municipal elections entitled "Your Voice is More Valuable." This comes in line with the popular stance and the political vision of Al-Wefaq that consider the upcoming elections illegitimate and nominal.

SALAM for Democracy and Human Rights revealed that 30 children in juvenile prison in the notorious Dry Dock Prison were poisoned on October 15.

Three Bahraini political detainees started hunger strike demanding the enhancement of their detention conditions.

Lawyer Fatima Al-Hawaj said that the Arab national resident who is being tried over charge of killing an Indian man was trying to allure police that Shia are behind the crime through writing expressions like "Ya Hussein" on the walls of the victim's house after killing him.