The family of jailed Bahraini activist Nabeel Rajab has been denied visiting rights after he underwent surgery, relatives said Thursday.

Human rights campaigners have urged Formula One management to cancel next week's Bahrain Grand Prix, accusing the country's rulers of using the race to "whitewash" abuses and improve their image abroad.

Trump administration decided to remove any HR conditions from sales of F-16 and other arms to Bahrain. The rationale for doing so is the idea that hard power considerations ought to come before softer concerns for the rights of someone else’s citizens.

Jailed in 2011 for life for discussing peaceful political reform by a monarchist elite fearful of change, Bahraini dissident Abdul Al Khawaja is living the brutality of Bahrain’s Jau Prison, highlights Brian Dooley.

The Supreme Court of Appeals ruled in absentia the annulment of appealed 5-year prison verdict, and acquitted the defendant from charges addressed against him.

The Saudi Ambassador in Bahrain Abdullah Al-Sheikh, said that the delay is working on the one unified point, which was supposed to be launched on March 6 on the bridge linking Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, is due to technical procedures.

Protesters completed their 290 days of open sit-in outside the house of the Shiite majority spiritual leader, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, in the Bahraini town of Diraz.

Head of the Parliamentary Investigative Committee on the pension funds manage by the Social Insurance Organization, Majeed Al-Asfour, said that the government failed to pay the pensions for some contributors during some periods.

The Supreme Court of Appeals commuted the 5-year jail term of 4 defendants to 3 years. The defendants are accused of putting a hoax bomb and burning tires on Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman Street.

Bahrain’s minor criminal court sentenced on Thursday, March 30, 2017, Imam of Al-Kheif mosque Sheikh Isa Al-Moamen (60 years) to 3 months in prison and 500 BD fine over inciting hatred against the regime.

The Third Minor Criminal Court sentenced the custodian of the Zahraa (as) Mosque in Hamad City to one month in prison with the execution of sentence over submitting fake notice.

Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa met the President of Chechen Ramzan Kadyrov and discussed “the latest regional and international developments and topics of joint interest”.

Bahrain’s Members of Parliament rejected during last week’s session a proposal conditioning 10-years of naturalization to have passed for any individual to receive housing services.

The family of an imprisoned activist in Bahrain says he has undergone surgery for bleeding ulcers.

Detainee Fadhel Abbas' family demanded the ministry of interior to allow them visit their son, expressing fear over his safety, especially that he has been held since 190 days, i.e. more than 6 months, noting that the family couldn’t visit him even one time. His lawyer couldn’t get Abbas’ proxy to represent Abbas attending the investigation sessions. Moreover, Fadhel wasn’t even presented to the prosecution despite being held for months.

Kuwait will increase its borrowing on international markets to plug a budget deficit resulting from low oil prices, the finance minister said on Tuesday.

Activists on social media said that the Bahraini authorities prevented on Wednesday morning (April 5, 2017) the former Al-Wefaq MP and human rights activist Hadi Al-Musawi from leaving the country.

The second minor criminal sentenced actor Mansour Sankimah, known as “Sankimah” to two and half years in prison with 50 BD fine over insulting former MP on social media outlets. The court also set 1000 BD as a bail to stop the execution of sentence.

British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Tuesday she would raise "hard issues" with Saudi Arabia's leaders on a visit to the country, as critics urged her to pressure Riyadh over its air war in Yemen and human rights record.

Bahrain's foreign minister said on Tuesday that U.S. President Donald Trump understood the region and the threats posed by their common adversary Iran better than Barack Obama.