British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has called on Saudi Arabia and its Persian Gulf allies to end their blockade and siege of Qatar, playing down the possibility of a military escalation between the two sides.

The “Middle East Eye” website said that “a member of Bahrain's royal family has appeared to admit he "beat" pro-democracy activists on London's Oxford Street and accuse British police of being "directed" by Qatar.

Barclays (BARC.L) and four former top executives were charged with fraud on Tuesday over undisclosed payments to Qatari investors as part of a 12 billion pound ($15 billion) emergency fundraising during the financial crisis in 2008.

The Bahraini Minister of Foreign Affairs, Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, met the UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Boris Johnson, on his official visit to the United Kingdom.

British Prime Minister Theresa May urged the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Qatar on Thursday to take steps to reduce tensions that have led the Arab world's biggest powers to cut ties with Qatar.

British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Tuesday she had raised "the question of terrorism" when she visited Saudi Arabia in April.

The British “The Guardian” said that the British government may not publish the results of a long and detailed investigation into the foreign funding of extremist Islamic groups in Britain, as the decision behind not publishing the results is due to “sensitive information” mentioned in the investigation.

Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society said in a statement that the Bahraini regime has committed, with international complicity and silence, a heinous crime and historic sin and blatant violation of all international norms protecting the principles of human rights.

The British Reprieve organization said that “there are worrying signs that Britain is helping to prop up Bahrain’s death penalty system,” amid the abuses taking place in Bahrain and after Bahrain carried out the politically-motivated executions of three men – Abbas Al-Samea, Sami Mushaima and Ali Al-Singace in January 2017, while two more prisoners – Mohamed Ramadhan and Husain Mousa – face imminent execution.

The British military attaché in Bahrain, Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Price, said that improvised explosive devices in the streets of Bahrain “blown up by terrorists” pose a threat to Bahrainis every day.

Bahraini security forces detained family members of three U.K.-based activists on Saturday over their protests against the Gulf king's attendance at a royal horse show in Britain, one of the activists said.

Bahrain detained three activists over protests targeting the tiny island nation’s king during a royal horse show in the United Kingdom, a fellow campaigner said Saturday.

The UK-based Bahraini activist Isa Al-A'ali said that the Bahraini authorities arrested his father and summoned his mother over his participation in an anti-King protest.

UK-based daily The Guardian said reported that “MPs and rights groups have reacted with dismay over the use of a secretive £1bn government aid and security fund to pay for a Royal Marines band to play in Bahrain for the Queen Elizabeth’s 90th birthday, despite the country’s dire human rights record.”

The British Daily Mail newspaper said that Bahrain has referred its first civilian case to a military court following a constitutional amendment approved by the king last month, according to Amnesty International.

The UK criticized Bahrain adopting policies of death penalties and citizenship revocations.

Mahdi Abu Deeb, President of the dissolved Bahrain Teachers’ Association (BTA), won the International Solidarity Award for 2017, granted by the largest teachers’ union in the UK, NASUWT. Abu Deeb spent 5 years in prison after a Bahraini court ruled against him.

Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa arrived in the British capital, London to attend the graduation of his granddaughter Aisha bint Rashid Al Khalifa from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS) that graduated dozens of the Al Khalifa ruling family.

British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Tuesday she would raise "hard issues" with Saudi Arabia's leaders on a visit to the country, as critics urged her to pressure Riyadh over its air war in Yemen and human rights record.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Bahrain strongly denounced throwing rotten eggs at a Saudi military official, describing what happened as “the barbaric assault” and considering the protestors “a group of terrorists”.