Bahrain’s High Appeals Court scheduled the sentencing hearing of the defendants in the ISIS case on June 18, 2017.

Bahrain’s First High Criminal Court decided to call the attesting witnesses to the stand in the May 14, 2017 court session in the trial of the 23-year-old Bahraini charged with joining the terrorist ISIS organization.

Bahraini High Appeals Court upheld a 5-year prison term against an appellant and 3-year prison term against three others over charges of planting hoax bomb, setting fire to tires and assaulting policemen in the Saar area.

Bahraini High Appeals Court upheld a five-year prison sentence issued against an appellant and a one-year term against two others over charges of blocking road and setting fire to a garbage container in Tubli.

Defense panel of Sheikh Hassan Isa, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison, filed an appeal challenging the verdict convicting Sheikh Hassan Isa and others of funding a terrorist group.

Bahraini FM said that the Gulf States listened to some of Iran’s views concerning disputed issues, which he described as “neither deep nor direct.”

Human Rights First condemned Trump Administration’s decision to move forward with sale of 19 F-16 fighter jets to Bahrain, despite Bahraini regime’s failure to meet human rights conditions attached to deal.

Amnesty International strongly criticized US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson who will reportedly lift human rights conditions on an arms sale to Bahrain, despite that country’s record of oppression against dissidents.

University of Melbourne hosted on Friday a conference entitled, “Human Rights Abuses in the Gulf States,” which discussed the human rights situation in the Gulf States, with a focus on Bahrain and Yemen.

General Federation of Workers Trade Unions in Bahrain expressed concern over the continued deprivation of hundreds of Bahraini and non-Bahraini workers of their wages.

The directorate of support for civil society organizations in the Ministry of Labour and Social Development issued a circular addressing civil organizations including, charity organizations to immediately remove second hand clothes containers.

The Supreme Court of Appeals presided over by judge Mohammad bin Ali Al Khalifa and Naji Abdullah as secretariat commuted the 10-year jail term issued against former Interior Ministry colonel Adel Flaifel to 3 years and commuted the 3-year jail term issued against 6 others to one year only. It is to mention that Flaifel is sentenced over possession of arms and ammunitions without a licence from the ministry of interior.

The Al-Wasat newspaper said that the security forces blocked on Thursday (March 30, 2017) Diraz entrance facing Barbar village and allowed the entrance of students and teachers only, noting that this entrances is one of the two through which residents are allowed to reach Diraz.

Bahrain’s Ministry of Interior said that it referred a fight that took place in East Riffa to the Public Prosecution.

Bahrain’s ambassador Fawaz bin Mohammed Al Khalifa presented his credential to King Harald V as Accredited Non-Resident Ambassador of the Kingdom of Bahrain to the Kingdom of Norway.

Al-Wefaq condemned what it described as retaliatory death and lengthy prison sentences issued by Bahraini courts against a number of citizens, including former MP Sheikh Hassan Isa.

Bahrain’s fourth high criminal court sentenced one defendant to 15 years in prison and two others to 10 years, also revoking all the defendants’ Bahraini nationalities in a politically motivated case.

The Supreme Court of Appeals commuted the life-term sentences of 7 appellants to 15 years only and commuted the 10-year jail of others to 7 years over “Saraya Al-Ashtar” case. The court, however, upheld revocation of the defendants’ nationalities and the fines imposed on them.

Saudi police shot dead two gunmen after they opened fire on security forces during a raid near a Shiite town, the interior ministry said on Wednesday.

: Rights group Amnesty International said a court in the United Arab Emirates had sentenced a dissident professor to 10 years in prison for online activism on Wednesday, calling the move a violation of free speech.