Bahrain Mirror (Reuters): Bahrain is committed to keeping its dinar currency's peg to the U.S. dollar, a senior official at the kingdom's central bank said on Monday.

Bahrain Mirror (Reuters): Bahrain has not yet made a decision about the fate of an Iranian-owned bank based in the Gulf state under administration, a senior Bahraini central bank official told Reuters on Monday.

Bahrain Mirror (Reuters): A Bahraini court sentenced 57 men to 15-year jail terms on Monday for rioting in a prison outside the capital Manama last March, the public prosecutor's office said.

Bahrain, among a list of 15 countries, has lost its right to vote inside the United Nations after failing to pay annual contribution to the United Nations budget imposed on member states.

Bahrain’s Public Prosecution ordered launching the necessary investigations to identify who is running Sheikh Ali Salman’s personal Twitter account to refer the case to the competent criminal court.

Amnesty International stated that the Bahraini authorities continue to silence the opposition by the use of unnecessary force, arrest and imprison protesters and political opposition leaders, and torture detainees.

Bahrain Mirror: Bahraini lawyer Abdullah Al-Shamlawi stated that Bahrain's Court of Cassation scheduled February 1, 2016 for reconsidering the cassation case No. 204/2015 to detain Sheikh Mohammad Ali Al-Mahfouz. .

Bahrain Mirror (AP): Bahraini authorities have launched a new criminal case against the country's top Shiite opposition figure over comments posted on his Twitter account while he is behind bars.

Bahrain Mirror (AFP): Bahrain's prosecutor said Sunday he would not press new charges against Sheikh Ali Salman, the jailed leader of the main Shiite opposition bloc, in connection with messages posted on Twitter.

Bahrain Mirror (Reuters): A Shi'ite opposition leader already serving a four-year jail sentence in Bahrain has been accused of three more offences including "public incitement against the constitutional order of the country", his lawyer said on Sunday.

Bahrain Mirror: The General Secretariat of Bahrain's Parliament issued a clarifying statement regarding what was published in the newspapers and media about "the deduction of the MPs salaries because of their absence during sessions" in which it emphasized that regulations allow the deduction in case of absence without an excuse.

Bahrain Mirror: Lawyer Hamid Al-Mulla stated that the Director of the Penitentiary Establishments refused a request to conditionally release Dr. Ali Issa Al-Ekri, pointing out that since December 10, 2015 he has addressed the Director of the Penitentiary Establishments requesting the release, in accordance with Article (349) of the Code of Criminal Procedures . "We had no response regarding this issue, what prompted us to address the penitentiary execution judge", he added.

Bahrain Mirror: The President of the Bahrain Forum for Human Rights (BFHR) Yusuf Rabie said that the Bahraini authorities' decision preventing the Secretary-General of Bahrain's main opposition group Al-Wefaq from having contact with the outside world is considered a belittlement of prisoners' rights.

Bahrain’s Professional Fishermen’s Association Secretary Abdul Ameer Al-Mughni stressed that 10% of the fishermen stopped fishing due to the decision to lift subsidies on fuel.

Poultry Producers Co-Operative Society raised a memorandum to Delmon Poultry Company and another to the Department of Agriculture in the Bahraini Ministry of Works and Municipalities Affairs on behalf of 35 owners of poultry farms to demand reevaluating the price of chicken which the company purchases from them.

: Recent official data showed that the public debt in Bahrain exceeded 6.6 billion dinars by the third quarter of the previous year 2015, constituting around 52% of the gross domestic product

Bahrain’s First High Criminal Court sentenced 23 suspects to 10 years in prison over charges of starting fire, causing damage, joining an assembly and having possession of Molotov cocktails, while declared the fifth suspect not guilty of carrying a knife without a license.

The wife of detained Al-Wefaq Secretary-General Sheikh Ali Salman said that she received a call from the Jaw Central Prison confirming that the authorities decided to prevent Sheikh Salman from any calls and visits.

Aerobatic team “Russian Knights” was unable to participate in the Bahrain International Airshow due to delay Iran’s issuance of a permit to fly through its airspace, reported Russia Today.

Bahrain Mirror: Bahrain's Minister of Transportation and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Gulf Air, Kamal Ahmad said that the company made deals to buy 45 new Boeing and Airbus aircraft, for USD 7.6 billion.