The Manchester Evening News website said that Bahrain will witness the opening of a new university “British University Bahrain” later this year, in partnership with University of Salford.

A deadline will be introduced in Bahrain for people to register births and deaths. There is currently no time frame for informing authorities, but the Shura Council yesterday approved requirements for new parents and the recently bereaved.

Hasan Al Marzooq, Secretary-General of the Unitary National Democratic Assemblage (Al-Wahdawi party), said that the security authorities summoned him for interrogation tomorrow (Wednesday, February 21, 2018), without mentioning reasons.

A synagogue delegation organized a trip to Bahrain and occupied Palestine on February 25th, in first visit of its kind to a Gulf state.

Amnesty International has launched an online campaign to call on the Bahraini authorities to release Nabeel Rajab on the eve of his sentencing hearing on Tuesday (February 20, 2018).

A US Senate delegation arrived in Bahrain and met with Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa and Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa.

A Bahraini member of parliament submitted a proposal to consider February 14 of every year as an official holiday, marking the vote on the National Action Charter.

Bahraini Ministry of Labor and Social Development announced a decision obliging NGOs to refer to the Ministry regarding all offers submitted to them by foreign embassies and bodies.

Bahraini Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa criticized on Sunday (February 18, 2018) the Cybercrime Directorate at the Ministry of the Interior, saying that it is spreading sedition among citizens.

An Indian newspaper stated that the number of Indian workers in Bahrain reached 350 thousand in 2014 after it was about 90 thousand in 2000, which means that the number increased 4 times.

The Court of Cassation decided on Monday (February 19, 2018) to uphold the closure of Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, the largest opposition political group in Bahrain.

The Fourth High Criminal Court adjourned on Monday (February 19, 2018) the case of opposition leader and Al-Wefaq Secretary-General Sheikh Ali Salman and two Al-Wefaq leaders Sheikh Hassan Sultan and Ali Al-Aswad over charge of “colluding with Qatar” until March 1, 2018.

King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa met on Sunday (February 18, 2018) Chairman of the US Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Richard Burr.

Three Bahraini activists wanted by the security authorities martyred in sea while attempting to flee to Iran. Meanwhile, a fourth one accompanying them is still missing.

The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Bahraini House of Representatives retracted its previous decision to criminalize the photographing of traffic accidents.

Bahraini Minister of Labor said that license requests for fundraising for societies and charities amounted to a total of 623 in the period from March 2015 to November 30, 2017.

Public Prosecutor's Office ordered arrest of unionist Ali Al-Binali in a new fraud case after complaints from citizens accusing him of appropriating large sums of money and signing debt securities in exchange for gold bars.

Security authorities in Bahrain released on Saturday Shiite cleric Sayed Adnan Hashem, more than three weeks after his arrest.

The Bahrain Forum for Human Rights (BFHR) said that it recorded 995 serious human rights violations between January 1 and January 31, 2018.

US Defense Secretary James Mattis accused Iran of standing behind Bahrain’s protests and other regional crises.