The Bahraini Special Investigation Unit (SIU) affiliated to Public Prosecution summoned on Wednesday (May 11, 2016) Sayed Talal Alawi, husband of recently released detainee Rayhana Al-Mosawi, for interrogation.

The British Guardian newspaper stated that "prosecutors are to appeal against a judge's decision to dismiss charges against protesters who said they took direct action against an arms fair to stop crimes being committed with the weapons on sale."

The Bahraini Fourth High Criminal Court issued sentences against 30 defendants over a bomb blast and assembly that took place in Diraz in 2014. One defendant was acquitted, 8 others were sentenced to life-imprisonment and one suspect was stripped of his citizenship, while a 5-year prison term was handed down to 20 others with 3000 BD fine.

A Bahraini court sentenced on Thursday (April 28, 2016) dissidents to life-imprisonment over charges of “acquiring explosives” and stripped a number of defendants of their Bahraini citizenship.

Bahrain’s Public Prosecution stated that the fourth high criminal court issued its sentence on April 27, 2016 against three suspects accused of detonating a bomb that injured a policeman, acquiring explosives and destroying two vehicles owned by the police.

The head of the monitoring and documentation unit at the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) said that the Bahraini authorities released poet Abdulhussein Salman.

A Bahraini Court of Appeals upheld the court of first instance's verdict, sentencing 3 suspects to 5 years in prison. The court also sentenced another suspect to 3 years and acquitted 2 others over charges of assembling and burning tires.

The Bahraini authorities arrested on Sunday (April 24, 2016) poet Abdulhussein Salman over taking part in an opposition oratorical festival held on Saturday (April 23, 2016).

Bahrain's Public Prosecution said that it concluded its investigations "in the case of a preacher banned from delivering sermons (Sheikh Mohammad Al-Mansi) in violation of the ban issued against him, and concerning some content of his speech which was considered a criminal offense."

The Bahraini High Appeals Court commuted the sentence issued against an officer and two policemen from five years in prison to two, while acquitting three others, over charges of torturing detainees and causing the death of one of them, Hassan Al-Sheikh.

Bahrain's First High Criminal Court, at the request of the Public Prosecution, turned the trial hearing of the "Bahrain ISIS" cell members into a confidential one, during which the last two witnesses (policemen) gave their testimonies.

The Second High Criminal (Appeals) Court adjourned the case of eight Bahrainis whose citizenships were revoked until April 5th, 2016.

Bahrain's First Minor Criminal Court, presided over by judge Ibrahim Al-Jefn and Mohammad Makki as secretariat, fined a Bahraini youth 200 Bahraini dinars over charges of insulting the parliament on a social media website.

Lawyer Youssef Rabie' stated that the head of the Religious Freedoms Department of The Bahrain Human Rights Observatory (BHRO), Sheikh Maytham Al-Salman, left a police station, after he was summoned over a religious sermon he had delivered last November (2015).

The Bahraini Public Prosecution said that it received a report from the Capital Governorate Police Directorate about the arrest of "a person who has possession of publications and photos that promote the terrorist Hezbollah group and its Secretary-General."

The Bahraini Public Prosecution confirmed that it intends to pursue the Kuwaiti Member of Parliament Abdulhamid Dashti after he was sentenced to two years in prison over collecting money without a license,

Bahrain’s Fifth High Criminal Court convicted four suspects over charges of attempted murder, starting fire, assembling, rioting [...], sentencing the first three suspects to life imprisonment and the 4th to 15 years in prison.

Bahrain Mirror (Reuters): A prominent Bahraini opposition figure was sentenced to a year in jail on Wednesday on charges of insulting the kingdom's ruling system in a speech last year, his defence lawyer said.

Bahrain Mirror: The Public Prosecution in Bahrain admitted to interrogating a number of children between the ages of 9 and 14, noting that some were questioned over charges of terrorist acts.

The Bahraini High Criminal Court (Appeals) upheld the sentence to expel Sheikh Mohammad Khojasteh, the Bahraini Shiite cleric and member of Ulama Islamic Council, whose nationality had been revoked.