A Bahrain court on Wednesday sentenced 10 Shiites to life in jail for forming "terror" groups and manufacturing explosives and bombs, a judicial source said.

Ibrahim Serhan, legal advisor in Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, commented on the verdicts issued on Monday (25/12/2017) by the military judiciary in Bahrain saying “the lawyers did not expect the death sentences since the indictment list and the military prosecution adaptation also accepted by the high military court, i.e. assassination attempt charge, was only brought against the first defendant, while the rest of the defendants were accused of inciting and supporting the first suspect”.

Assistant Under-Secretary for agriculture affairs in the Ministry of Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning Dr. Ibrahim Yusuf denied the presence of highly contagious strain of bird flu “H5N8” in Bahrain, stressing that the directorate took all precautions and measures, adding that there is a special operation room to follow up the incident.

Civil Defence extinguished a fire in a 2 floor building in Manama suq.

Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society dubbed the death penalty verdicts issued against 6 citizens as “fool”, stressing that the cases are absurd and baseless.

The Director-General of Northern Governorate Police announced the arrest of one of the suspects involved in the Damistan gas cylinder blast in which a civilian car was damaged. He said the Public Prosecutor had been notified and the investigation would continue to identify and arrest the remaining suspects.

Bahrain's top military court sentenced six men to death on Monday after convicting them of charges including plotting to assassinate the Gulf state's armed forces chief, state media reported.

Bahrain's Military High Court on Monday sentenced six Shiites to death, 15 years in prison and revoked their nationality on charges of attempting to assassinate the commander-in-chief of the country's defense force, who oversees the appointment of military judges.

A Bahraini military court sentenced six Shi‘ite Muslim men to death and revoked their citizenship after they were convicted on charges of forming a terrorist cell and plotting to assassinate a military official, Bahrain news agency BNA reported on Monday.

BDF General Command announced that Bahrain Royal Navy Force (BRNF) will carry out at live ammunition firing at the (Hair Bu Amama) area today (Tuesday, December 26, 2017) from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

A Bahraini military court sentenced on Monday (December 25, 2017) 6 citizens to death, 15 years in prison and revoked their nationality in a case related to plotting to assassinate Bahrain Defence Force Commander-in-Chief field marshal Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Khalifa. The court also sentenced 7 others to seven years in jail and revoked their citizenship. Meanwhile, it acquitted 5 defendants.

Bahraini Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa met with the new US Ambassador Justin Siberell and Admiral John Aquilino, Commander of the US Naval Forces Central Command and Commander of the Fifth Fleet in Bahrain.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Bahram Qasimi responded to the tweets of the Bahraini foreign minister Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed, in which the FM criticized Iran, stressing that the latter is the most independent in the region.

Head of the Quality of Education and Training Commission, Jawahar Al-Mudhaki told the local Al-Bilad newspaper that, “after reviewing the reports of the second and third sessions, it was found that 20 public schools received an “inadequate" rating.

The Ministry of Health in Bahrain said that medications that have approached their expiration date do not lead to any side effects or affect the patient’s health.

Four Bahraini human rights organizations issued a report under the title of "Death or Confession", a report that monitors the violations due to secret military courts that tried civilians whose confessions were extracted under torture. These civilians were accused of attempting to commit crimes against Bahrain Defense Force; they include human rights activist Mohammed Al-Mutghawi and Sayed Alawi Husain, the personal attendant of the highest religious cleric in Bahrain Sheikh Isa Qassim.

The seventh Askari Imams campaign for blood donation managed to collect 172 blood units, in a blood drive organized by the Charitable A’ali Society, the Bahrain Society for Sickle Cell Anaemia Patient Care and the A’ali Health Center.

Bahrain News Agency said that King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa arrived in the Moroccan Capital and was welcomed by Prince Moulay Rachid.

King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa issued four decrees for 2017, appointing 2 Assistant Undersecretaries at the Ministry of Information Affairs, Assistant Undersecretary at the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, Director General at the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquity and Ambassador in Thailand.

Senior advisor at Human Rights First, Brian Dooley, stressed that prominent Bahraini human rights defender Abdulhadi Al Khawaja, who was convicted and jailed with other leading peaceful dissidents, is now being targeted again, inside prison.