Al-Bilad daily said that Bahrain's oil production reached an average of 197276 barrel per day through 2017, indicating a decrease of 2.4% on terms of production average versus 2016 that recorded 202063 barrels per day.

US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) said that religious freedom conditions did not improve for the majority Shi’a Muslim community amid an ongoing stifling of dissent and a deterioration of human rights conditions generally.

UN human rights experts called for retrial of each of Mohammad Abdulhassan Al-Mutaghawi, Fadhel Sayed Radhi, Sayed Alawi Hussein and Mubarak Adel Mubarak Mhanna who were sentenced to death before their verdicts were commuted to life in jail, on charges of joining terrorist cell and attempting to assassinate the Bahrain Defense Force commander-in-Chief.

US Ambassador Justin Hicks Siberell disclosed on Monday (April 30, 2018) that there are 17000 Americans in Bahrain.

Bahrain’s Ministry of Interior said that a US delegation visited on Monday (April 30, 2018) Muharraq security complex that witnessed last year the summoning and torturing of dozens, including human rights activist Ibtisam Al-Saegh and that is known as the new headquarters for the National Security Agency.

News Agencies websites said that the Airport Security Force (ASF) deported and arrested a Bahrain bound passenger after recovery of a pistol and bullets at Sialkot Airport.

Bahrain has once again demolished on Sunday (April 29, 2018) a Shiite mosque, south of Manama, which the residents have built after a harsh security campaign that resulted in the demolishing of 38 mosques and Shiite religious institutions in 2011.

Al-Wefaq Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Hussein Al-Daihi said that Al-Wefaq has monitored in its records 49,000 protests demanding democracy and building of a state of justice since 2011.

The Bahraini Shura Council approved the bankruptcy bill on Sunday (April 29, 2018), before referring it to the King for ratification.

Germany has called for further constructive steps, commenting on the Bahraini authorities’ commuting of the death sentence issued against four Bahraini dissidents.

Bahrain's senior Shia spiritual leader Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim will complete a full year of siege on May 23, 2018.

The security authorities in Bahrain released on Sunday (April 29, 2018) activist Haj Majid Abdullah, known as "Haji Sumoud”.

The Ministry of Interior addressed personal letters to senior Shiite cleric in Bahrain (Sayed Abdullah Al-Ghuraifi, Sheikh Abdulhussein Al-Sitri, Sheikh Mohammed Saleh Al-Rubai and Sheikh Mohammed Sanqour), who undersigned a statement dated April 26, 2018, regarding the death penalty which was commuted to life in jail for convicts indicted in the attempted murder of Bahrain Defence Force (BDF) Commander-in-Chief. The ministr

King of Bahrain sent a letter to the Military Commander-in-Chief in which he said that the latter's approach to forgiveness and tolerance led to his decision to commute the death penalty.

Bahrain's top Shiite clerics described in a statement the decision to “overrule the death sentences” of those accused of plotting to assassinate the army chief as “a welcomed and praised step.”

US Department of Defense has approved possible sale of combat helicopters and aircraft missiles to Bahrain at an estimated cost of $911.4 million, a Pentagon agency said.

A Bahraini court bound a telecommunication company to pay 200 BD as moral and material compensation for a Bahraini woman who was arrested for a whole day and released on a bail after seizing her bank accounts and her car, claiming she was in debt for a bill she had already paid for the company.

Progressive Tribune Society issued a statement in which it praised Bahrain's decision to commute the death sentences that the Military Court of Cassation had upheld against the defendants in the assassination of Marshal Khalifa bin Ahmed case.

Bahrain's nationality has been ranked last among the Gulf states in terms of quality, according to a report issued by Henley & Partners, a global leader in assessing quality of passports and nationalities.

Kuwait has offered a new financial grant as part of its share in the “Gulf Marshall” project for building 314 housing units in the Northern City.