The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Labor and Social Development, Sabah Al Dosari, said that his ministry proposed to temporary female workers in the Ministry of Work, Municipality Affairs and Urban Planning, better positions with higher salaries.

Bahrain’s High Appeals Court upheld life sentences against 2 appellants and 10-year jail term against 4 others over blast and assembly cases.

Bahrain’s Ministry of Interior said on its twitter page on Friday that a blast took place in the town of Shakhoura, west of the capital Manama.

Protesters in the town of Nuwaidrat, south east of the capital Manama, clashed on Friday with Bahraini regime forces, after an angry rally across the areas, organized with the end of consolation ceremonies over martyr Abdullah Al Ajouz.

The High Administrative Court issued overruled the decision to dismiss the Jaafari Waqf (Endowment) Director, Sheikh Mohsen Al-Asfour from his position.

The UK government has prioritised business dealings with the Gulf over rampant human rights abuses in Bahrain since 2011 uprising.

The High Administrative Court rejected the case brought by 8 people, demanding to cancel the decision of the Minister of Interior that revokes their citizenships.

Bahrain’s Ministry of Interior said that the one-stop crossing on the private lane of the King Fahad Causeway that links Bahrain to Saudi Arabia is to be enforced from March 6 as part of a three-month experimental phase.

Bahrain's First High Criminal sentenced a suspect to 3 years in prison over hiding a convict.

Amnesty International launched a countdown campaign on Twitter for the release of Dr. Ali Al-Ekri who is supposed to be released on 10 March, for serving his 5-year jail term.

A "terrorist blast" slightly injured a woman near the Bahraini capital on Thursday, the Interior Ministry said on its Twitter account, in the latest in a series of explosions in the small Western-allied kingdom.

The Bahraini Ministry of Interior said that a blast occurred in the town of Sanabis, west of the capital Manama, and caused the injury of a Bahraini woman.

The streets of Bahrain witnessed today angry protests against the Ministry of Interior and government media outlets publishing photos for 4 Bahraini women accused by the authorities of joining terrorist cells.

The Bahraini Government said in its third National Universal Periodic Review of Human Rights Report to be discussed in May 2017 that it is facing challenges represented in attempts by some to exploit human rights issues, unfairly, as a front to achieve their narrow political aims.

For the people of Bahrain, a key US ally, the new US president’s dissimilar direction in foreign policy from his predecessor Obama may cause for alarm or hope.

The Fifth High Criminal Court adjourned the case of prominent Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab until March 22, 2017, to listen to the investigations officer’s testimony

Bahrain's First High Criminal Court sentenced Hussein Ali and his wife Hamida Al-Mokhawder to one year in prison over hiding a convict who is sentenced to 10 years in prison over a political case.

Hundreds of Bahrainis from different areas continued to condole family of martyr Abdullah Al-Ajouz for the second consecutive day. Al-Ajouz was killed in an arrest process carried out by forces affiliated to the Ministry of Interior on Monday (February 20, 2017).

Human Rights Watch criticized Bahraini government’s approach to adopt a law enabling military courts to try civilians, considering it a violation of international fair trial standards.

Amnesty International said in its 2016 annual report about the human rights situation in Bahrain that the authorities tightened restrictions on the rights to freedom of expression and association and continued to curtail the right to peaceful assembly. They detained and charged several human rights defenders and banned others from travelling abroad, dissolved the main opposition group and stripped more than 80 people of their Bahraini citizenship, forcibly expelling four.