Labour Affairs Undersecretary in Labour and Social Development Ministry Sabah Al-Dossary said that the ministry is negotiating with two companies to solve the problems of delayed salaries of about 50 Bahraini and foreign workers.

Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman ordered Minister of Industry and Commerce Zayed Al-Zayani to form a governmental committee to discuss visuals of chamber of commerce and solve any problem regarding decision to raise commercial records fees.

Hundreds of Bahrainis took part in mass protests across different Bahraini villages to condemn the Saudi-led war on Yemen.

The Bahraini security authorities transferred detained Shiite cleric Sheikh Isa Al-Qaffas to Dry Dock Prison (Pre-trial detention center) directly after he underwent surgery last Wednesday.

Index on Censorship said in an article on its website that human rights defenders often confront obstacles that make their work difficult. The organization indicated that the families of activists suffer along with their loved ones and are often targeted with official harassment: detention, loss of employment, beatings and harassment. Each case is an individual story of a struggle for freedom.

Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry called on Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman to intervene to stop the imposing of new fees on commercial registers and end the increase of current fee rates.

The Bahraini cabinet added 9 terrorist entities to the terrorist list. It added 3 entities from Yemen: Al-Balagh Charitable Foundation, Al-AIhsan Charitable Society and Rahma Charitable Organization and 6 others from Libya; Benghazi Revolutionaries Shura Council, Al Saraya Media Center, Boshra News Agency, Rafallah Sahati Brigade, Nabaa TV and Tanasuh Foundation for Dawa, Culture and Media.

The Bahraini security authorities have continued to prevent the Shia majority from performing their largest Friday prayer in the Imam Al-Sadiq mosque in Diraz for the 57th consecutive week.

Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud received in his residence in the city of Tangier in the Kingdom of Morocco, on Thursday night, Abdullah bin Ali bin Abdullah bin Jassim Al-Thani.

The NBC News website said that the USNS, a civilian support ship, will officially become a warship in Bahrain on Thursday.

The Higher Education council said that its screening group discovered a number of violations committed at the Gulf University, which led to suspending human resources and interior design BA programs. The council also ordered to immediately stop working in the scientific labs for safety and security considerations.

Bahraini opposition figure Ali Al-Aswad said that claiming that “there are Shiite officers in the interior and defense ministries is absurd,” in his response to a statement made by the Bahraini Foreign Ministry.

The National Institute for Human Rights (NIHR) described the 2016 International Religious Freedom Report that was launched on August 15, 2017 as unfounded theories.

Bahraini state media on Wednesday accused Qatar of attempting to overthrow the government in Manama, upping the stakes in a diplomatic crisis that has seen Doha isolated in the Gulf.

The Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society said in a statement after Bahraini official TV aired a recorded phone call between the society’s Secretary-General Sheikh Ali Salman and former Qatari Prime Minister that the regime is not courage enough to air the full conversation. It cut parts of it in order to mislead the local and Gulf public opinion, defame the image of the national opposition and extend the prison term of this senior national leader, stressing that holding calls with the international society and diplomatic parties is the core of the political work.

Public Prosecutor's Office said they began investigations on Wednesday (August 16, 2017) into phone calls between Bahraini opposition leader and former Qatari Prime Minister which were aired on Bahrain's official television channel.

The Al-Bilad local newspaper said that the National Health Regulatory Authority in Bahrain recently detected “one of the violators who maintains medical equipment in a welding shop”.

The United States issued its annual religious freedom report on Tuesday, slamming its allies in the Gulf, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, for persecuting religious minorities.

U.S. allies including Saudi Arabia and Bahrain did not uphold principles of religious freedom in 2016, while Islamic State has carried out "genocide" against religious minorities, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Tuesday.

Prominent human rights activist and detainee Ibtisam Al-Saegh said that the stripping of clothes and sexual abuse she was subjected to by the members of security authorities affiliated to the Ministry of Interior were heinous, adding that this should be brought to halt and not to be repeated with any other woman.