The federal high court in Abuja said Ibrahim Zakzaky, who heads the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) and his wife should be released within 45 days and ordered the government to provide them with a new home since their residence was demolished during the violence.

Shamoon, the destructive computer virus that four years ago crippled tens of thousands of computers at Middle Eastern energy companies, was used two weeks ago to attack computers in Saudi Arabia, according to several U.S. cyber security firms.

A Saudi newspaper said that the Joint Peninsula Shield Forces (JPSF) carried out military maneuvers under the name of “Bahrain Shield Drill 1” with the participation of Bahrain Defence Force (BDF) last Tuesday and Wednesday.

A mass protest took off from Imam Sadiq mosque in Diraz on Friday (December 2, 2016) after noon prayers and marched the village’s streets. The protest condemned the sectarian persecution practiced against Shia in Bahrain.

Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) said that it received information stating that some female detainees over political cases in Hamad town prison were subjected to beating and threatening by a criminal prisoner.

Al-Salmaniya Medical Complex postponed on Thursday (December 1, 2016) an endoscopy operation for Elias Faisal Al-Mulla, a cancer patient, because Jaw Prison’s administration did not comply with the medical instructions that should be followed before undergoing a surgery.

The high appeals court commuted the verdict issued against 5 appellants in the case of setting fire to tires, planting hoax bombs in a public place, assembling, rioting and acquiring Molotov. The court lessened the 10-year jail term issued by the first-instance court against 6 convicts, making them 5 years. The court also upheld 3-year jail term against the third and fourth suspects.

Lawyer Sadiq Al-Dirazi said that the second criminal “appeals” court amended the one-year prison term against Mulla Habib Al-Dirazi making it 6 months only.

Social media activists published on Friday (December 2, 2016) photos showing tightening of the security siege that has been imposed on Diraz since months.

Bahrain News Agency (BNA) said that the Interior Minister Rashid bin Abdulla Al-Khalifa paid a visit on Thursday (December 1, 2016) to the State of Qatar.

Kuwait's appeals court has upheld a 10-year jail sentence against an online activist on charges of insulting the emir and harming national interests, a newspaper reported on Thursday.

Amnesty International called in a statement it published on its website to urgently take action and ask the Bahraini authorities to immediately release Sayed Alawi and comply with the international laws and standards.

Bahraini authorities have put a prominent human rights lawyer on trial for charges that include insulting state institutions, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday, in a further crackdown on dissent.

Islamic state has told its members to stop using internet-based communication apps like WhatsApp and Telegram on smartphones, suspecting they are being used by the U.S.-led coalition to track and kill its commanders.

An independent English-language news site in Qatar accused the Gulf state of censorship on Thursday, saying two Internet service providers had simultaneously blocked access to it.

Local Bahraini newspaper al-Wasat said that some university staff members of the unemployed “list 1912” entitled “Empowerment List”, received a sudden notice from the Ministry of Labor informing them that their training period is terminated.

Saudi authorities banned one of their citizens, writer Jamal Khashoggi from appearing on any media outlet. So will Dr. Abdulkhaleq Abdullah, a political science professor at Emirates University, be next.

Bahrain Forum for Human Rights (BFHR) said that 3-month jail term issued against Bahraini journalist Faisal Hayyat over a tweet he published his Twitter account “reflects deterioration in press freedoms”.

The second high criminal “appeals” court amended the verdict issued against the head of Ulama Islamic Council and prominent Shiite cleric Sayed Majeed Al-Mashaal, commuting his prison term from 3 years over two cases to two and half years only.

The Fifth High Criminal Court sentenced a defendant to one year in prison after convicting him of hiding 3 wanted for authorities over political cases.