The Third High Criminal upheld a verdict imprisoning a youth for 10 days and fining him 30 BD for acquiring a sword without a license.

The meeting between the Crown Prince and Sheikh Qassim in October 2002 also seemed that it did not succeed in containing the Shiite sect by rentier state accords.

The High Criminal rejected the objection of a convict sentenced to 10 years in prison over the charge of burning MP’s car, and upheld the 10-year jail term issued against him.

The High Criminal Court rejected the objection of a suspect sentenced to 15 years in prison over the charge of burning an ATM in Salmabad, for not appearing before the court.

The High Criminal court sentenced a child to 6 months in prison over assembling and putting hoax bomb in A’ali and ordered the confiscation of seized items.

Two Bahraini citizens were killed and a third injured in a road accident in Dammam in eastern Saudi Arabia.

Gulf Air said that one of its planes heading to Riyadh had to divert to Bahrain due to inclement weather conditions and severe turbulence.

King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa ratified and issued three laws for 2017 after they had been approved by the Shura and Representatives councils.

The U.S. State Department approved a $2 billion sale of missiles to the United Arab Emirates, the Pentagon said on Thursday.

Al Qaeda has started reaching out for recruits in Yemen by handing out quiz sheets, with an AK-47 assault rifle as top prize, residents and media said on Thursday.

A cholera outbreak in Yemen has killed 51 people since April 27, the World Health Organization said on Thursday, more than double the toll of 25 reported three days ago.

The percentage of traffic violations in Bahrain’s major streets decreased by 75% in the period between December 2016 and April 2017, with expectations to decrease more in coming months.

The Council of Representatives approved in its Tuesday (May 9, 2017) session a proposal to impose a fixed 10 Bahraini Dinar fee (paid once), for the extension of sewage network.

The Third Supreme Court of Appeal overturned a first instance court verdict against two appellants, acquitting them of charges of assembly and endangering means of transportation in Karzakan.

History and International Relations Professor at the Lebanese University, Jamal Wakim, said that “there is an American effort and pressure to normalize relations between Arabs and Israel,” believing that part inventing an enemy called “Iran” and the Shiism subject, come to justify and cover these normalization processes.

Bahraini authorities denied an entry visa to a Human Rights Watch researcher. HRW said that this move proves that “Bahrain has yet again shown its intolerance of human rights advocates,” according to Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch.

The Supreme Court of Appeals rejected the objection of a suspect sentenced to whole life prison term for not appearing before the court.

The Fourth High Criminal Court sentenced 12 suspects to 7 years in prison over attacking Sitra police station with Molotov and putting hoax bomb. The court also sentenced 2 suspects (who are under 18 years) to 3 years in prison, bound all the suspects to pay 212.5 BD for the damages caused to the station and ordered the confiscation of the hoax bomb and the Molotov.

A Human Rights Watch staffer said Wednesday he was barred from entering Bahrain for the annual Fifa congress in the Gulf state, which restricts access to foreign activists and journalists.

Two civilians will be tried on terrorism charges in a Bahrain military court for the first time under new amendments issued in March that have drawn sharp condemnation from rights groups.