Amnesty International called for urgent action, demanding that all charges raised against human rights defender Ebtisam Al-Sayegh be dropped, noting that she remains at risk of detention.

The commissioners at the Bahrain National Institute for Human Rights (NIHR) elected Maria Khouri in the position of the institute’s president, as a successor for Saeed Al-Faihani, who was appointed an ambassador at the Bahrain Foreign Ministry.

Saudi Arabia’s future king has tightened his grip on power through an anti-corruption purge by arresting royals, ministers and investors including billionaire Alwaleed bin Talal who is one of the kingdom’s most prominent businessmen.

Bahrain News Agency publishes report saying Manama has every right to claim Qatari land, a move considered to escalate the Gulf dispute with Qatar.

Bahrain’s Shura Council members rejected in their session a parliamentary law that they dubbed “an attempt to have parliamentarians interfere in the executive authority jurisdictions.”

Bahraini Foreign Ministry called on Bahrainis in Lebanon to leave immediately in a statement, also urging them to completely avoid traveling to Lebanon.

Bahrain Security Authorities imposed on its citizens to travel to Qatar using only their passports.

United States urged its ally Bahrain to conduct a thorough and impartial investigation into allegations that three members of Activist Sayed Ahmad Alwadaie’s family gave confessions extracted under duress.

Activists on social media confirmed that Bahraini authorities have arrested at least two citizens in the last 48 hours in Bahrain.

Bahraini citizen convicted of “insulting the king” and stripped of his nationality has been deported to Iraq after serving a two-year jail sentence, Amnesty International said on Friday.

The Prisoners and Detainees Rights Commission said it approved a procedure for organizing announced and unannounced visits to prisoners and pre-trial detainees in the places they our held.

The Chairman of the Bahraini Parliament’s Financial and Economic Committee, MP Abdul Rahman Buali, declared that the selective tax will be applied early next year.

CEO of the Information and e-Government Authority Mohammad Ali Al-Qaed said that the authority is working on providing service of renewing the identity cards through eKey Single-Sign-On System that allows renewing all the individual's expired cards in one step through the eGovernment National Portal, indicating that the service is expected to be launched before the end of 2017.

The latest statistics published by Bahrain’s Information and eGovernment Authority revealed that the Bahraini population reached 1,501,000, of which 45% are Bahrainis that amounted to 677,000 compared to 823,000 foreigners.

King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa received, at the Al-Safriya Palace yesterday, the President of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), Miroslav Lajcak, on a visit to the kingdom to participate in the World Entrepreneurs Investment Forum (WEIF 2017).

A Bahraini court sentenced on Wednesday (November 1, 2017) two Shiite clerics to 6 months in jail over assembling in Manama in 2011.

The Bahraini authorities released on Wednesday (November 1, 2017) Mulla Hani Al-Biladi after serving a 3-month jail verdict over assembling in Diraz.

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Secretary-General, Abdul Latif Al-Zayani, broke his silence regarding the Qatari crisis and attacked the Qatari media, denouncing their criticism against the GCC Secretariat.

Deputy Secretary-General of Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society Sheikh Hussein Al-Daihi stressed that Qatar’s Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani was a mediator in a joint Saudi-US initiative to settle the political dispute in Bahrain.

The Bahraini opposition figure Ali Al-Aswad said that the Qatari mediation, which Sheikh Ali Salman is now being accused of, was done with the knowledge of Saudi Arabia and organized by its foreign minister (Saud Al-Faisal).