Bahrain on Sunday suspended the country's only independent newspaper indefinitely over a column that insulted a "sisterly Arab country", state news agency BNA reported, the second time the publication has been banned this year.

Youth Raed Al-Sairafi died as a result of drowning, while youth Qassim Abdulhamid was missed in the sea after a sudden malfunction in their boat, near Umm Al Naasan Island facing King Fahd Causeway, before massive waves capsized the boat.

Health Minister Faeqa Al-Saleh disclosed a number of administrative resignations in the Ministry of Health reaching 37 cases. Meanwhile, the minister explained that 40 doctors submitted their resignation, 26 were considered normal retirement and 14 were early retirements.

The National Democratic Action Society, Wa’ad, regretted the decision by High Administrative Civil Court issued May 31, 2017, ruling the dissolution of the society and the liquidation of its assets.

In a statement to the Saudi “Al-Hayat” newspaper in its today’s issue (Sunday, June 4, 2017), the Bahraini Minister of Foreign Affairs Kahlid Al Khalifa denied knowing anything about diplomatic efforts to resolve the Qatari crisis. Yet, he stressed keenness on the unity of the Cooperation council, highlighting that he knows nothing about any Kuwaiti mediation.

Bahrain Forum for Human Rights (BFHR) said in a statement that security authorities have imposed an undeclared house arrest against Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, since the violent armed raid on the Diraz protest on May 23, 2017.

The authorities in Bahrain International Airport prevented on Saturday, June 3, 2017 a delegation from the General Federation of Bahrain Trade Union (GFBTU) from traveling to Geneva to participate in the works of 106th session of International Labour Conference. Meanwhile, the authorities did not give the delegation any reason behind this surprising decision.

Bahrain has ordered an independent newspaper to stop publishing "until further notice" amid a crackdown on dissent in the Gulf nation.

Bahrain News Agency said that the Ministry of Information Affairs suspended Al-Wasat newspaper from issuance until further notice.

UAE Ambassador to Washington, Yousef Al Otaiba said that his country is working hard to make successful the experience of Mohammad bin Salman, Saudi deputy Crown Prince.

Hackers allied to Shiite militants in Bahrain have apparently gained access to the Twitter account of its foreign minister, posting a series of threats to the island's royal family.

The Bahraini authorities released (Saturday June 3, 2017) Shiite cleric Sheikh Bashar al-A’li, after almost 5 hours of interrogations.

Adam Rajab, the son of the prominent Bahraini human rights activist, says his father "is sacrificing himself to see a country which respects human rights", he said in an interview with Index on Censorship.

Assailants have hacked the Twitter account of Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed al-Khalifa and posted hostile and insulting videos, the foreign ministry and local media reported on Saturday.

France said on Friday that increasing tension in Bahrain was preventing national reconciliation efforts in the Gulf Arab state after a decision to dissolve the main secular opposition group, which has alarmed human rights campaigners.

A U.N. human rights chief on Friday urged an investigation into a Bahraini security raid which killed five people last month and expressed concern at what he called a crackdown on dissent in the Gulf island kingdom.

Bahraini human rights defender of religious freedoms Sheikh Maytham al-Salman, believed that the Bahraini government is seeking the formation of an alternative political and civil society, obedient to it.

The Labour Court bound Gulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, to pay 29796.126 BD for an Irish employee who was arbitrarily dismissed from work.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Friday called on the Government of Bahrain to promptly launch an independent, effective investigation into the deaths of five protesters during a security operation last week

Diraz, hometown of spiritual leader of Shia majority Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, witnessed a mass protest on the first Friday of the holy month of Ramadan, in which dozens of citizens took part in and held anti-regime slogans.