Journalist Faisal Hayat denied before the Small Criminal Court the accusation of him insulting a religious figure, and assaulting a certain community.

The US State Department said it rejects all charges against prominent rights activist Nabeel Rajab, confirming that it is following his case very closely, is demanding his release.

Former Head of Saudi Intelligence Apparatus, Turki al-Faisal, expressed his deep concern about the future of the political situation in Bahrain, as he believed that “the Iranian power is growing in it in a worrying and dangerous way.”

The Iraqi Hashid Shaabi, or Popular Mobilization Forces, said it started on Saturday it's attack on ISIS headquarters in West Mosul to support the campaign to restore the city control from ISIS.

The spokesman of Yemen's Ansarullah movement Mohammad Abdul Salam denied on Friday claims that his movement targeted the holy city of Mecca with a missile.

Economic experts confirmed that the value-added tax (VAT), which Gulf countries intend to impose in 2018, will be borne by the end user and consumer (citizens and residents) and not the traders.

Social media users circulated a screenshot for a “WhatsApp” conversation, showing a text by deputy head of Bahrain’s Consultative Council, Jamal Fakhro, sending a picture for US model Jailyne Ojeda, and sent it as a complementary gift to the Bahrainis besieged in Diraz.

Court of Cassation said it overturns the appeal verdict of Sheikh Ali Salman’s appeal, saying that the videos referred to in the findings do not show details that lead to his conviction.

The High Appeals Court ruled in favor of a verdict in cases of 45 appellants, in a case of establishing and managing a terrorist group.

The sixth high appeals will look on November 10, 2016 into the appeals of 10 suspects accused of killing the Emirati officer Tariq Mohammad Al-Shahi and two other policemen in Al-Daih, after the cassation court overturned the verdict.

Social media activists posted a footage showing Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa while heading to the office of the British Prime Minister Theresa May at Downing Street to meet her.

Protestors took to the street in mass protest after Friday prayer, condemning the prevention of Shia majority from holding their largest Friday prayer in the Imam Al-Sadiq mosque.

The Bahraini authorities continued its siege in Diraz that has been imposed since over 4 months. The authorities also continued to prevent the Shia majority from performing their largest Friday prayer in the Imam Al-Sadiq mosque in Diraz.

Margaret Ferrier, MP in House of Commons posted a tweet in which she said “I have today written to the PM Theresa May to demand that she raise Bahrain human rights issues with the King when she meets with him

During the Ashura photos and flags crisis in 2005, US Embassy in Manama released a detailed report on Shiite religious holiday of Ashura in just a few days.

A Bahraini court issued on Thursday (October 27, 2016) harsh sentences against 15 dissident accused of establishing a terrorist group; a charge the authorities usually bring against opposition activists.

The Bahraini Al-Wasat newspaper said that the sixth high appeals court presided over by judge Ibrahim Al-Zayed and Yousif Buhardan will consider on November 6, 2016 the case of the opposition leader and Al-Wefaq Secretary General Sheikh Ali Salman.

Amnesty International said that “the Bahraini authorities must immediately and unconditionally release human rights activist Nabeel Rajab and opposition leader Fadhel Abbas, two prisoners of conscience who are facing long prison sentences for using Twitter to voice concerns about human rights abuses in the conflict in Yemen.”

The Bahraini Fourth High Criminal Court handed down 5-year jail term to 2 suspects over assembly, arson and planting hoax bomb in Jurdab, sentenced 2 others to 3 years in prison, acquitted the fifth suspect and ordered the confiscation of seized items.

United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), the Bahraini Khawla Mattar won the United Nations Secretary-General award of for courage.