Index on Censorship criticized in a statement issued on its website the annual 2016 report on Human Rights issued by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office on Thursday July 20, 2017.

The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office voiced its concern over measures taken by the government in 2016 which further restricted some civil liberties, including freedom of expression and assembly.

No news were reported about Shiite cleric Sheikh Bashar Al-A’ali after he was summoned by the security authorities to Al-Budai police station on Thursday, July 20, 2017.

Bahrain Forum Human Rights head, Baqer Darwish, revealed that Chief of Terror Crimes Prosecution is one of the state security officers accused of torture in the 1990s.

The security authorities in Bahrain informed Shiite opposition cleric Sheikh Abdullah Al-Daqaq’s wife that her nationality has been revoked and deported her from the country hours after her arrival in Bahrain.

The Ministry of Education announced that the Bahraini oil company “Bapco” provided 24 scholarships for inside Bahrain and outside, for engineering studies in various specialties.

The siege on Diraz entered its second year, along with the authorities ban on the biggest Friday prayers held by the Shiite majority in Bahrain.

Complaints from Dry Dock prisoners continue to rise as one prison said, “Prison warden Abdullah Rashid al-Shihi increase restrictions, and we are suffering in asking for cold water in this hot summer, since cold water is outside the room where we are locked in.”

Amnesty International denounced charging Bahraini human rights activist Ebtisam Al-Sayegh with “terrorism,” calling for her immediate release.

The King of Bahrain Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa ratified the unified Family Law (Personal Status Law), despite being rejected by the Shiite Majority in the country.

A Bahraini rights group says a female activist has been charged under an anti-terrorism law amid a crackdown on dissent in the U.S.-allied Gulf island nation.

Few hours after UN independent experts issued a statement in which they expressed deep concern at reports that Ibtisam Al-Saegh has been tortured, the public prosecution claimed that she is engaged in forming a terrorist group.

A group of United Nations experts has expressed deep concern at the alleged arbitrary detention of Bahraini human rights defender Ibtisam Al-Saegh amid reports she has been tortured and sexually abused and is now on hunger strike.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urged in a statement it published on its website the Bahraini authorities to overturn journalist Nazeeha Saeed’s conviction on a charge of working illegally, which has been upheld on appeal. RSF also called on the authorities to stop violating media freedom.

Local newspaper said that there are about 140 Bahraini unemployed doctors who were not employed by the ministry of health although they graduated 4 years ago.

A Local newspaper reported that accident and emergency department in Al-Salmaniya medical complex was crowded with patients on Sunday (July 16, 2017) and that more than 60 patients were in the emergency department waiting for beds in order to be transferred to medical departments.

Al Arabiya sources revealed that Saudi emergency forces eliminated on Friday (July 14, 2017) wanted Bahraini convict Hassan Mahmoud Ali Al-Abdullah on Friday in Saihat, east of Saudi Arabia.

A group of international NGOs sent an open letter to the European Union (EU) member states and its institutions, urging them to stop the export of surveillance equipment to authoritarian countries.

Human Rights First’s Brian Dooley wrote a letter addressing the President of Bahrain’s National Security Agency (NSA), Sheikh Talal bin Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, 10 days after Bahraini human rights activist Ebtisam Al-Saegh’s Arrest.

Dozens of people took to the streets in different countries across Bahrain on Sunday (July 16, 2017) expressing their refusal to the issuance of family law without the consent of Shiite clerics.