Britain has expressed regret to Saudi Arabia after what it described as a "disturbance" during a visit by an aide to Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to London last week.

British Ambassador to Bahrain Simon Martin said “we are concerned with the terrorists Bahrain is facing and we took a stance in this regards. This is not limited to Bahrain only, but to the neighboring states as well. We are facing a challenge in security threat and we have to face these challenges together, because terrorism has no friend. We also refuse Iran’s threats to Bahrain and Gulf States.”

Bahrain’s ambassador Fawaz bin Mohammed Al Khalifa presented his credential to King Harald V as Accredited Non-Resident Ambassador of the Kingdom of Bahrain to the Kingdom of Norway.

A British website said that the UK Foreign Office officials have failed to respond to claims by human rights groups that “UK trained police were responsible for the gunning down of 18 year-old Mostafa Hamdan, who has died two months after being shot in the head.”

Bahrain’s Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society condemned the terrorist attack that targeted the British Parliament area yesterday Wednesday (March 22, 2017), which claimed the lives of 3 people.

In an interview Christopher Davidson discusses the West’s often covert counter-revolutionary activities in the Middle East region.

The British government has refused to back a joint United Nations statement criticising Bahrain over its deteriorating human rights record.

The UK government has prioritised business dealings with the Gulf over rampant human rights abuses in Bahrain since 2011 uprising.

Recent execution of three opponents of the political regime in Bahrain highlights subtle but frightening reassertion of authoritarianism in the country and the Middle East.

British daily The Independent said that Bahrain was among 8 despotic regimes that funded trips of British MPs last year, according to an analysis of Parliament’s register of interest.

The British “The Times” newspaper said that “The Foreign Office has been accused of trying to cover up its funding of a program to train the Bahraini police in crowd control techniques, including the use of water cannon and dogs.”

Over 20 human rights figures and organizations sent letter to British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs urging him to call on Bahrain to release Nabeel Rajab.

Bahrain’s scholar said in a statement on Friday (January 27, 2017) that the attack carried on by civilian forces on Diraz is “an intended crime of murder committed at the orders of officials. King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa and the British security administration bear full responsibility for this crime and the security and sectarian chaos.”

UK Members of Parliament called on the British Foreign Office to file a complaint against the Bahraini government, and to call for an investigations into torture in the Kingdom. They also demanded their government to interfere concerning the death sentences of Mohammad Ramadan and Hussein Ali Moussa.

After Bahraini authorities executed 3 Bahraini political prisoners, British Foreign Secretary merely reiterated UK’s opposing stance towards the death penalty without official condemnation.

Tom Brake, Liberal Democrat MP in the UK Parliament, called on his country's government to interfere to stop the execution of death sentences issued against 3 Bahraini dissidents.

British daily The Guardian said in a report published Friday (January 13, 2017), that, "The UK government is facing fresh questions about Britain's aid strategy after it emerged that a controversial multi-million pound program of support for Bahrain's security and justice system is being bolstered this year, even as the Gulf state reverses reforms to a key intelligence agency accused of torture."

A report issued by the British Government indicated that Bahrain spent more than 16 thousand British pounds for hosting 5 UK Members of Parliament from the Conservative Party, at its December 2016 Manama Dialogue Forum.

The Middle East Eye website said that the British military “has provided training to a Saudi war crimes investigations unit headed by a Bahraini judge accused of sentencing peaceful protesters to lengthy jail terms, where they were often tortured.”

British Prince Charles opened in November 2016 first UK military base in Bahrain since 1967, amid criticism against the support the Bahraini regime receives from the British government