Bahraini Minister of Industry and Commerce Zayed Al-Zayani said that “The Saudi market is a priority for us. The Saudi investor center was announced during the visit of the Saudi Crown Prince. This will facilitate the establishment of Saudi investor companies who owns 5% of Bahrain’s records.”

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemned well-known blogger and human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor’s sudden arrest two days ago (March 19, 2017) in the United Arab Emirates, as well as the UAE’s decision to keep another blogger, Osama Al-Najjar, in prison and the three-year jail term that a UAE court has imposed on Jordanian journalist Tayseer Al-Najjar, urging the Emirati authorities to free them immediately and unconditionally.

Bahrain has lost one of its sensible intellectual youths in one of the country's political prisons. Bahrain has lost the resilient martyr, Mohammad Mulla Hassan Sahwan, an exceptional figure in the Bahraini scene.

Hundreds of relatives of individuals killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks have sued Saudi Arabia in U.S. court, seeking to take advantage of a law passed by Congress last year that allows victims of such attacks on U.S. soil to sue state sponsors.

Bahrain Press Association said that the Bahraini authorities transferred the AFP photographer to the criminal investigation building after his arrest.

Bahrain Airport authorities arrested the AFP photographer Mohammad Al-Shaikh at the early hours of Wednesday (March 22, 2017).

The military court issued on Tuesday (March 21, 2017) a life imprisonment sentence against murderer of Eman Salehi, according to Military Judiciary Chief Youssef Flaifel.

Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) said that it documented 112 peaceful protest in 40 different countries across Bahrain, within the third week of March.

Bahrain News Agency (BNA) said that Commander-in-Chief of the Bahrain Defence Force (BDF), Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, received in his office today (Tuesday, March 21, 2017) the Swiss Consul to Bahrain, Humbert Vincent Buemi, days after tense relations between the two countries due to Switzerland's criticism of the Bahrain human rights file.

King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa issued Decree 20/2017 appointing three ambassadors in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Bahraini liberal opposition figure Ibrahim Sharif was charged on Monday with "inciting hatred" against the regime with his tweets, a human rights group said.

The security Bahraini authorities released human rights activist Ibtisam Al-Saegh after holding her for several hours at Bahrain’s International Airport while returning from Geneva, where she took part in 34th session of the Human Rights Council along with a Bahraini delegation.

The United Arab Emirates arrested political activist Ahmed Mansoor on charges of spreading sectarianism and hatred on social media, state news agency WAM reported on Tuesday, in a move criticized by rights groups.

Protesters clashed with regime forces Monday (March 20, 2017) after they tried to reach the Pearl (Lualua) Roundabout, the center of the vast popular protests Bahrain witnessed in 2011.

It is the weekend, the time when everyone looks for a breather to change their mood. Contrary to that, we are looking for a way out into a choked place, besieged day after day.

Information revealed that the Emirati authorities arrested on Sunday (March 19, 2017) the human rights activist Ahmad Mansour and transferred him to an unknown place.

The major administrative court postponed on Monday (March 20, 2017) the first hearing on dissolving the National Democratic Action Society "Wa'ad" to April 17, so that the defense lawyers representing Wa'ad could present their proxies.

German Ambassador to Bahrain Alfred Simms-Protz said that the arrest of a Bahraini citizen in Berlin last Friday at the hands of German police came as a response to a warrant issued by the Interpol based on Bahraini request.

The United Arab Emirates summoned the Swiss ambassador on Sunday to denounce a statement Switzerland made to the United Nations Human Rights Council the week prior criticizing fellow Gulf state Bahrain's human rights record.

The First High Criminal Court sentenced 2 defendants to 3 years in prison over taking part in kidnapping their two friends, beating them and stealing them, claiming they work as informants to the ministry of interior.