The government referred to the House of Representatives a bill to take 200 million BD from the Future Generation reserve fund.

The local Al-Ayam newspaper said that the government officially referred to the House of Representatives a bill to raise the ceiling of public debt to 13 billion BD, which is considered an unprecedented level.

Shura Council approved in it session on Sunday (July 2, 2017) a bill regarding alternative punishments and measures that allow the judge to issue alternative punishments, including community service, house arrest in a specific place, preventing from going to a place or specific places, undertaking not approach or contact persons or certain entities, submitting to electronic monitoring, attending rehabilitation and training programs, and repairing the caused damage.

Minister of Finance Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa said that the public debt has reached 9.1 billion BD until April and explained that the public debt constitutes 76% of the GDP for the year 2016.

The National Action Democratic Society (Wa’ad) filed an urgent lawsuit against the Ministry of Interior and police stations to reopen the society’s headquarters that the authorities forcibly closed.

Simon Henderson, the Baker fellow at The Washington Institute and director of the Institute's Gulf and Energy Policy Program, said that Qatar's father-emir, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, is still the driver of Qatari diplomacy.

Minister of Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning, Isa Khalaf, said that the number of construction permit requests received by the ministry during the past 5 years reached 69952 requests.

Saeed Mohammad al-Faihani said that the National Committee for Human Rights in Qatar is staging a misleading propaganda about "grave human rights violations caused by the gulf row."

The Bahraini Ministry of Interior (MoI) denied to have closed the headquarters of National Democratic Action Society (Wa'ad), claiming that what is conducted last May 31, was a ban of a "law-violating assembly".

Trade restrictions imposed on Qatar by Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates are justified by national security, Bahrain's representative told a World Trade Organization meeting on Friday.

The Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa called on Qatar to rectify its policy approach.

Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the dispute between Qatar and several other Arab states with Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa in a telephone call, the Kremlin said on Saturday.

Al Bilad local newspaper said that the Jaafari Endowment Directorate (JED) refrained from paying a contractor who implemented projects worth BD 176,892 although the required time to settle the amount passed.

Bahrain Watch Organization reported that “as of 7pm tonight, Bahrain has shut down the internet in the village of Diraz every day for 365 days.”

The Bahraini Parliament heads towards approving a legislative amendment in the law of passports. This would impose a penalty of no less than BD 50 and no more than BD 400, on anyone who deliberately sabotaged his passport.

The Ministry of Labor and Social Development Undersecretary Sabah al-Dossari, said that around 150 thousand workers will be included in the decision to impose a curfew on work at noon.

The Parliamentary services committee rejected a proposed draft law to establish a governmental company in contribution from the Labor Market Regulatory Authority, to solely recruit domestic workers.

The security authorities released on Friday (June 30, 2017) Shiite cleric and preacher of Al-Kheif Mosque in Al-Dair, Sheikh Isa Al-Moamen, after finishing his 3-month jail term over a Friday sermon he delivered on the onset of August 2016.

Five human rights organizations issued a report about torture in Bahrain in which they recounted the patterns of systematic torture practiced against political prisoners in Bahraini prisons and the activists summoned by the Intelligence to force them stop their activities.

Ministry of Interior said on Thursday (June 29, 2017) that it arrested a number of people whom it accused of establishing two armed groups related to what it calls “Saraya Al-Ashtar”.