The Public Prosecution said that it ordered the imprisonment of 13 suspects over case of selling expired milk. Meanwhile, it released one of the suspects due to his age and his health conditions, stressing that investigations are still ongoing.

Thai woman wanted for procuring young women into the flesh trade in Bahrain has been arrested at Suvarnabhumi airport by Thai authorities.

An electrical short circuit caused a fire in the vehicle of former Al-Wefaq Bloc MP Khalil Al-Marzouq on Sunday in the village of Jeblat Habshi in Bahrain.

Number of labourers in Bahrain protested on Saturday before the company gates they work for in the village of Jannusan, demanding that they get paid their wages that have been reportedly delayed for the past four months.

General Directorate of Criminal Investigations and Evidence head stated that a farm was confiscated in the Muqaba area, after discovering that the farm managers tampered with the expiry dates of their products.

The fourth high criminal court decided in its Sunday (May 7, 2017) session to postpone the verdict issuance in the case of Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, and members of his office Sheikh Hussein Al-Mahrous and Mirza Al-Dirazi until May 21. They are tried over charges linked to collecting money without a license.

Dozens of protests took to the streets across Bahrain on the eve of the trial held for Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, the country’s most prominent Shiite leader. It is expected that a local court issues a verdict against him tomorrow Sunday.

Bahrain failed another round in the United Nations. No one now believes the small state that masters falsifying recommendations and investing in the ad to waste time. 20 members wearing elegant suits and ties sat in the Human Rights Council (HRC) to be insulted. All the member-states' recommendations were on a side, and they were on the opposite one. The 20 members came to read papers like "robots". They became a mockery.

Human rights organizations called on diplomatic missions of the UN Human Rights Council member-states to intervene in the trial of Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, the most prominent Shiite leader in Bahrain.

Al-Wefaq Secretary General Sheikh Ali Salman called on the Bahraini authorities to "rationalize" in reference to the verdict expected to be issued tomorrow Sunday in the case raised against Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim.

The Supreme Court of Appeals presided over by judge Mohammad bin Ali Al Khalifa and secretariat of Naji Abdullah commuted a life term sentence of an appellant to 15 years and upheld a whole life sentence against another.

Sky News website said on Friday (May 5, 2017) that President Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi will visit Kuwait and Bahrain next Sunday.

Al-Mayadeen Channel said on its website that anxiety and tension in Bahrain escalated with the countdown of the sentence hearing of the highest religious authority in the country, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim.

Activists on social media outlets called for massive protests today, on the eve of the sentence hearing of spiritual leader for Shiite majority, Sheikh Isa Qassim.

Bahraini government's representative in Geneva, Deputy Foreign Minister Abdullah Al-Dosari, said that his country will carefully study all the recommendations contained in the report, which amounted to 175 recommendations.

Saudi women no longer need a man's consent to carry out certain activities, local media reported on Friday, but activists said the royal order does not go far enough.

OPEC and other countries that agreed to cut crude production are converging on the need to extend the pact beyond June to help to clear a supply glut, Saudi Arabia's OPEC governor said on Friday.

The commercial start-up of the first of four nuclear reactors that South Korea's KEPCO is building in United Arab Emirates is set to be delayed because the local operating company is not ready to run the reactors, a nuclear industry source said.

Iraqi forces pushed further into Mosul from the north on the second day of a new push to speed up the nearly seven-month attempt to dislodge Islamic State, commanders said on Friday.

The Ministry of Interior denied the claims of some e-newspapers that inmates in Jaw Prison suffer from scabies.