Minister of Interior Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa received yesterday outgoing Commander of US Naval Forces Central Command and Commander of the Fifth Fleet Vice Admiral Kevin M. Donegan who introduced his successor Vice Admiral John Aquilino.

The Public Prosecution interrogated on Sunday (September 17, 2017) human rights activists, charged them with assembly and confirmed the issuance of a travel ban decision against them.

The New Arab news website said that Israel's ministry of foreign affairs deleted a tweet from its Arabic-language account, perhaps aware that the post would anger Bahrain.

The Bahraini security authorities prevented on Monday (September 18, 2017) Sayed Sharaf Al-Mosawi, the chairman of the Bahrain Transparency Society from leaving the country. The authorities also summoned Bahrain Center for Human Rights member, activist Nidal Al-Salman for interrogation tomorrow.

Bahrain accused Qatar on Monday of illegally seizing three boats with 16 sailors on board, state news agency BNA reported, worsening an already deeply troubled diplomatic situation in the region.

Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa al Khalifa has denounced the Arab boycott of Israel, in recent statements revealing the direction Gulf States are taking towards normalizing relations with Israel.

Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, son of Bahrain’s King and Royal Guard Commander, received yesterday at Isa Air Base number of soldiers returning home from the war in Yemen, as part of the Saudi-led offensive launched March 2015.

President of the National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR), Saeed Al-Faihani, received Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Bahrain, Simon Martin, in the presence of the Institution's Vice President Abdullah Al-Drazi and Khalifa Al Fadhel the Acting Secretary-General.

Families of detainees held at Central Jaw prison said that they had lost contact with their sons nine days ago, i.e. since the political prisoners began an open hunger strike to protest against dire prison conditions.

The authorities at Bahrain’s Central Jaw Prison transferred a large number of prisoners on hunger strike to solitary confinement after they refused to end the strike that entered its ninth day, according to information.

Bahrain’s Interior Ministry forces launched a campaign today, targeting religious manifestations of Ashura, a religious occasion commemorated annually by Shia citizens in the country.

The National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR) expressed deep regret over Qatar's withdrawal of the citizenship of Talib bin Mohammed bin Lahoom bin Shuraim Al-Murrah, along with his 54-member family.

The Bahraini security authorities intensified their presence in the house surrounding of the spiritual leader of Shia majority, Sheikh Isa Qassim, who has been under house arrest since May 23, 2017.

Societies of the national democratic movement called on the Bahraini political forces to agree on a national agenda to break the deadlock and distance the country from political congestion and escalation of sectarianism as well as hatred speeches.

Information revealed that hunger strikers in Jaw Central Prison decided to abstain from calls, in a new measure to pressure on the authorities to ameliorate the conditions inside the prison.

The Bahraini public prosecution office charged four activists with “illegal assembly” after interrogating the activists in the authorities’ latest campaign launched against rights defenders in Bahrain.

Number of Bahraini women working in the private sector reached 30,284, official statistics revealed. The jobs these women occupy are divided into 10 categories, including finance and accounting, education, construction and contracting, transport and services, IT, healthcare, law among others.

Official statistics have shown a sweeping dominance of foreign workers in many job categories in Bahrain’s private sector, as they have taken over jobs in the IT, financial and accounting fields as well as hotel, transport, restaurant sectors among other jobs.

Human rights source revealed that some of the hunger strikers held in Bahrain's Jaw Prison, who suffer from diabetes, are at risk.

Security authorities in Bahrain prevented the country's Shiite majority from holding their largest Friday prayers for the 61th consecutive week, by continuing to impose a siege on the town of Diraz that is resided by over 20 thousand citizens.