On Human Rights Day, the tale of “Jaw” emerged from within Bahraini prisons. It is novel recounting the story of a political prisoner and his sufferings on March 10, 2015 inside Central Jaw Prison.

The high appeals court amended the First Instance Court's verdict against an appellant, commuting his 3-year jail term to one only over assembly case.

Former director of the Saudi Arabian General Intelligence Directorate, Prince Turki Al-Faisal, said that he does not support stopping the nuclear deal with Iran in the current phase, calling on to activate the agreement’s articles to guarantee that Iran will not own nuclear -weapons for 15 years.

State-run Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco) has received bids from international construction companies to expand its Sitra oil refinery, industry sources said.

Bahrain’s king Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa received the British foreign secretary Boris Johnson, few hours after the latter’s statements in which he attacked Saudi Arabia and accused it of waging proxy wars.

Bahrain’s Defence Minister Yusef bin Ahmed Al Jalahma received on Friday (December 9, 2016) his US counterpart Ashton Carter and his accompanying delegation on arrival at Bahrain International Airport to take part in the 12th edition of Manama Dialogue.

Participants in a roundtable session in the German capital Berlin said that Bahrain has arrested 1153 people since the beginning of the year, including 186 children and 21 women, which reflects the extent of human rights deterioration in the country.

Standard & poor's (S&P) agency downgraded Bahrain’s sovereign debt rating from “BB” to “BB-“, but said the outlook for the Kingdom and its central bank is stable.

The executive director of a leading British think tank, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) that organizes the “Manama Dialogue” forum, has quietly stepped down after a British newspaper revealed that IISS has received £25 million from Bahraini royals.

Husain Abdulla Founder and Executive Director of Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), Husain Abdullah, said that Bahrain's monarchy is trying to ingratiate itself with the incoming US administration by holding its national celebration at Trump Hotel

Major US news networks, ABC and CNN, have raised ethical concerns regarding Bahrain renting out Trump’s Hotel Hall for National Day celebration in Washington.

Nasser is striving to portray himself as “a man of war” after his first two images were deformed, when he painted himself as an “athletic prince”, and was later exposed as a torturer.

The UK Charity Commission has confirmed it is investigating a complaint filed against a London-based think-tank into whether it compromised its independence by accepting confidential financing from Bahrain.

The 2016 Manama Dialogue will start today (Friday, December 9m 2016) in the Kingdom of Bahrain. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is organizing the forum in cooperation with the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).

Bahrain’s High Criminal Court commuted the 5-year jail term against a Bahraini suspect (29 years) to 3 years. The suspect was condemned of hiding 3 convicts “Ali Abdulshaheed Al-Singace who is sentenced to death penalty and 2 others sentenced to prison terms” in his father’s house in Diraz.

Bahrain’s High Criminal Court commuted the verdict issued against 17 appellants, reducing the 5-year jail term of 7 appellants to 3 only and the 3-year jail term of 9 others to 2. The court also amended the sentence issued against the first suspect from 8 to 6 years in prison.

: Human rights activist Zainab Al-Khamis said that the security authorities in Jaw Central Prison dealt “impolitely” with the prominent Shiite cleric Sheikh Mohammad al-Mansi who is serving one-year jail term over performing prayers “without a license from the Jaafaria Endowments (Waqf)”.

In seven episodes, Bahrain Mirror presented a reading research on the cables sent by US Embassy in Manama to US State Department about Ashura commemoration. Why is US diplomacy so interested in Bahrain’s Ashura?

British Foreign Minister, Boris Johnson said accused the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, one of his country’s strongest allies in the region, of “participating in proxy wars” and “twisting and abusing religion” for political ends.

Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa and his Saudi counterpart Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud agreed to conduct a study for constructing the “King Hamad Bridge”, under private funding.