Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) said that it monitored the arrest of 27 citizens within one week, as the legislative elections boycott by the opposition approach.

Bahraini Minister of Foreign Affairs confirmed that his meeting with his Syrian counterpart Walid Al-Muallem wasn’t previously arranged, stressing that the Syrian government is the Government of Syria.

Leader in Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, Ali Al-Aswad, called for boycotting the elections to be held on November 24.

Bahrain Center for Human Rights issued a report about the violations witnessed in Ashura season in 2018. The report stressed that the Bahraini Constitution guarantees the constitutional freedoms, however, things are different in reality.

Civil Service Bureau in Bahrain announced that the percentage of Bahrainis in the government sectors declined to 86% after it was 91%, after the increase of government reliance on foreigners throughout the past years.

Saudi Foreign Minister, Adel Al-Jubeir, said that Qatar had incubated terrorist groups and allowed suicide bombings to be justified, noting that it had contributed to destabilizing the region.

The Ministry of Labor and Social Development said that it welcomes about 7,000 to 8,000 new jobseekers every year, who are graduates of various fields, hiring them in private sector jobs.

Sayed Abdullah Al-Ghuraifi, a prominent Bahraini Shiite cleric, called on the authorities in the country to release all preachers, eulogy reciters and obsequies organizers.

Sayed Ahmed Al-Wadaei said in tweet “I just received a phone call from my mother-in-Law Hajer Mansoor, she sounded very depressed, probably the worst call we ever had with her.”

Amnesty International urged Bahrain’s authorities to take immediate steps to ensure all those in state custody can access adequate health care and condemned in a statement issued on Friday “medical negligence” and “intentional ill-treatment” in Bahrain’s prisons.

Bahrain’s Gulf Arab allies are weighing plans for a five-year aid package to steady its finances and protect a currency peg seen as vital to regional economic stability, Bloomberg reported according to people with knowledge of the matter.

The follow-up team of the treatment of Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, spiritual leader of Shia majority in Bahrain, said that he underwent an eye surgery on (Thursday, September 27, 2018) in the evening in a hospital in the British capital, London.

A Bahraini court sentenced on Wednesday (September 25, 2018) a Bahraini (living abroad) to 10 years in jail and issued life term sentence against his brother after accusing him of joining Saraya Al-Ashtar.

An appeals court upheld on Tuesday (September 25, 2018) a 3-year jail term against detainee Madina Ali Ahmad over background of political cases.

The United States is pulling some of its anti-aircraft and missile batteries out of the Middle East, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing U.S. military officials.

A Bahraini court sentenced on Wednesday (September 26, 2018) oldest female political detainee to one year in jail, after accusing her of harboring one of her relatives.

Bahrain’s Appeals Court adjourned on Wednesday (September 26, 2018) case of opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman until October 15.

Bahrain accused on (September 25, 2018) Iran of standing behind protestors who wrote the King’s name on streets of a village located on south west of Manama.

In its annual report on counterterrorism and countering violent extremism in the world in 2017, the US State Department considered repression the main reason for the increase in terrorism in Bahrain.

Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) published a report on the Civic Space in the Middle East, warning that time is running out as civic space is closing rapidly in the region.