Bahrain’s High Appeals Court upheld life sentences against 2 suspects accused of blasting a bomb in Khalifa Al-Kabir Street in Muharraq and 5-year jail term against Taiba Darwish over hiding fugitives. The court also upheld 2-year jail term against an appellant over hiding a convict.

Bahrain condemned the United Nations’ statements that criticized the regime’s execution of 3 political dissidents.

King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa received at Safriya Palace on Wednesday (January 18, 2017) Kuwaiti Ambassador to Italy Ali Khalid Al Jaber Al Sabah as well as a number of officials and participants in "This is Bahrain" function.

Thousands of Bahrainis lit candles on Wednesday (January 18, 2017) mourning the martyrs Ali Al-Singace, Abbas Al-Samie and Sami Mushaima who were executed by squads in the first death penalty carried out since 2011 uprising.

Bahrain’s senior clerics described on Wednesday (January 18, 2017) the Bahraini regime’s execution of 3 activists as “catastrophic news”.

Iran and Saudi Arabia should be able to work together to help end conflicts in Syria and Yemen, after successfully cooperating over Lebanon last year, Iran's foreign minister said.

he Bahraini authorities allowed the opposition-linked Al-Wasat newspaper to resume its online edition, 3 days after being suspended.

Amnesty International said that the Bahraini authorities “must immediately commute the death sentences of two men at imminent risk of execution”. The two death row detainees are Mohammad Ramadan and Hussein Ali Mousa. Amnesty “warned that the harsh response to protests against three executions carried out by firing squad on 15 January risks plunging the country into a human rights crisis.”

Police in Bahrain used tear gas and buckshot Wednesday to disperse protesters who took to the streets following prayers for three Shiites executed over a deadly bombing, witnesses said.

Iran and Saudi Arabia should be able to work together to help end conflicts in Syria and Yemen, after successfully cooperating over Lebanon last year, Iran's foreign minister said.

January 15, 2017 had a bloody beginning and ended with immense heartache. Perhaps the Bahraini people should now be more concerned about the rest of the political prisoners sentenced to death.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani called on Saudi Arabia to stop its “aggression” in Yemen and “interference” across the region, during a news conference in Tehran on Tuesday.

The Committee to Protect Journalist (CPJ) called on the government of Bahrain to rescind an order suspending the online edition of Al-Wasat newspaper.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said that his country did not seek to cut relations with Saudi Arabia, it was the Saudis themselves who broke relations.

The third high criminal court sentenced 4 defendants to 6 months in prison over assembling in Manama based on an invitation from Al-Wefaq Society, the largest opposition society in Bahrain, that was dissolved in the mid of 2016.

The United States expressed its concerns about the Bahraini authorities’ execution of 3 detainees. The US State Department said that their confessions were extracted under torture, however, it did not condemn the execution.

The High Appeals Court upheld life-imprisonment sentences against 3 defendants accused of attempted murder of policeman in Diraz through blasting a bomb.

The US State Department expressed its concerns over the decision of the Government of Bahrain to suspend the online version of the independent newspaper that has close ties with the opposition.

The third high criminal court sentenced two Shiite clerics Sheikh Fadhel Al-Zaki and Sheikh Mohamad Jawad Al-Shehabi to 6 months in prison instead of 2 years over two assembly cases in Diraz.

In a press conference held on Tuesday, the United Nations urged Bahrain “to impose a moratorium on the use of the death penalty and to ratify the second optional protocol of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) that aims to abolish the death penalty definitively.”