The security authorities continued to summon activists to interrogations in a vast campaign that targeted dozens and aimed at imposing travel bans on them in a time that coincides with the UPR session to review Bahrain’s human rights portfolio in Geneva.

King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa has issued a Royal Order 24/ 2017 on the formation of a legislative committee to review the family draft law.

The economic slowdown experienced by the GCC countries following the oil price decline and consequent fiscal tightening will continue to apply pressure on asset growth and profitability of Islamic banks in 2017 and 2018.

35 Bahraini trade unions condemned what is called an “unfair attack” launched by some business owners against trade unions and union activists without any right.

Bahraini Member of Parliament, and head of the Financial and Economic Affairs Committee in the council, MP Abdulrahman Bu Ali, said he would not be surprised if he received the budget and saw a reduction in current benefits.

The Public Prosecution charged Sunday (April 23, 2017) a number of activists whom it had summoned, with illegal assembly in Diraz.

The Supreme Court of Appeal upheld citizenship revocation verdicts against 7 defendants convicted in a case lined to a “terrorist cell”, which the Ministry of Interior said caught with an explosives storage in Dar Kulaib.

The Legislative and Legal Affairs’ Committee at the Shura Council expressed rejection to have the Parliament Speaker’s power to “appoint assistance secretaries in the General Secretariat of the parliament” transferred to the King by means of a royal decree.

Five members of the Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry filed a lawsuit before the Civil Court against the chamber’s president demanding the last meeting’s proceedings to be annulled.

The Ministry of Interior said that installing surveillance cameras outside residential apartment comes as part of an enhancement and development scheme for housing buildings in Salmabad.

The fifth High Criminal Court ruled a 2 years imprisonment verdict against 2 and 5 years against another, for tampering with fingerprint device at the Ministry of Interior.

The number of Ministry of Information Affairs' staff was recorded to be 1092 employees, divided into 820 Bahrainis, constituting 75%, and 272 foreigners, constituting 25% of the staff, according to official numbers.

Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi will start an official visit to Saudi Arabia on Sunday, in an effort to break the ice after months of tensions

Twenty-six Qataris, including members of the Gulf state's ruling royal family and two Saudis, were freed on Friday after being kidnapped and held in Iraq for nearly a year and a half, Qatari officials said.

Human rights groups signed joint letter calling on the King of Bahrain to release and drop the charges against photojournalist Sayed Ahmed Salman al-Mousawi.

Saudi Arabia's labor minister issued an order on Thursday to restrict employment in shopping malls to Saudi nationals, who currently make up only one in five staff in the retail sector.

The Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte told leaders in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar during a regional visit last weekend that he would deploy Philippine troops to the region if necessary.

Transparency International today called on the government of Bahrain to lift its travel ban on Sayed Sharaf Almosawi, the chair of its partner organization in Bahrain, the Bahrain Transparency Society.

Bahraini citizens, who have benefited from the residential apartments, presented by the Housing Ministry in Salmabad, said, “The Ministry of Housing started a few days ago to install surveillance cameras outside the entrances of the apartments.”

The Bahraini governmental delegation convened with the UN Committee against Torture (CAT) last Friday (April 21, 2017) in a session to discuss Bahrain’s periodic review pertinent to implementing the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.