In a statement, Bahrain’s clerics described what the government has committed by lifting subsidies on meat, raising gasoline prices and promising to raise tariffs of electricity, water and other life necessities as “targeting citizens in the necessities of their life and restricting their livelihood.”

A Bahraini court sentenced a suspect (23 years old) in absentia to 7 years in prison over planting hoax bomb at a roundabout in Bahrain’s Tubli.

The revolutionary forces called for “diverse civil disobedience” on the fifth anniversary of the uprising in Bahrain under the slogan “Al-Nimr’s Disobedience” for “the leading role played by the martyr Sheikh Al-Nimr.”

British Minister for the Middle East and North Africa, Tobias Ellwood, called on all those with concerns about mistreatment in Bahraini prisons to directly report to the Ombudsman office in the Bahraini capital Manama.

Bahrain's First High Court of Appeals held its fifth hearing of the Bahraini detained opposition leader and Al-Wefaq Secretary-General Sheikh Ali Salman's trial on January 14, 2016 and is to issue its verdict on March 30.

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and other international and Bahraini nongovernmental organizations strongly condemned the repeated use of the death penalty by Bahraini authorities and called on the government to commute the death and life sentences.

The General Federation of Workers Trade Unions in Bahrain (GFWTUB) said that the government’s decision to raise gasoline prices violates both the text and spirit of a principle confirmed by the constitution, which is not resorting to steps that would rest additional financial burdens on citizens.

The General Secretariat of Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society demanded on (January 12, 2015) to “respect the religious peculiarities of the Shiite sect, which is a significant part of respecting religious rituals,” adding that “it is the government’s duty to guarantee that the freedom of religious rituals is not violated.”

Bahrain’s Ministry of Interior denied that it promised the Jaffaria Endowments (Waqf) to repair the damage in Al-Marzooq Hussainia in Al-Sanabis, which was caused by live rounds of bullets fired by an unknown suspect.

Sources revealed that a number of Bahraini pro-government local newspapers dismissed a number of journalists and employees within the past few days, while reviewing the contracts of others amid the financial crisis Bahrain is facing.

The Bahraini national democratic opposition forces warned of the negative consequences of lifting subsidies on basic commodities and the economic and financial deterioration on the citizens’ purchasing capabilities, the shifting of citizen classes to poverty line and continued dwindling of the middle class.

Commenting on the 2014 annual report of Bahrain’s National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR), the Human Rights and Liberties Department of Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society expressed its deep disappointment regarding its content stressing that it is “far from reality”, and has disregarded many of the blatant violations taking place.

Different areas across Bahrain witnessed demonstrations that were held on Wednesday (January 14, 2016) on the eve of a new appeal hearing for the opposition leader and Al-Wefaq Secretary-General, Sheikh Ali Salman.

The King of Bahrain Hamad Bin Issa Al Khalifa appointed one of his family members as a judge to preside over the Court of Appeals which looked into the 4-year prison sentence issued against the opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman on Thursday (January 14, 2016).

A poll showed that 21% of Bahraini youths said that Jihadi organizations such as ISIS and Al-Qaeda “sometimes bring up issues that we agree on.” This came in the results of a survey conducted by the Washington-based Zogby Research Services (ZRS).

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) stated that the Bahraini authorities have arrested 42 citizens including 5 children within the first week of January, 2016.

A Member of of the Bahraini Parliament blamed Iran for the drop in international oil prices and for the economic crisis that the Kingdom of Bahrain and Gulf oil exporters are facing.

Clerics in Bahrain condemned the “blatant assault and gunfire that targeted the Al-Marzouq Hussainia in Wadyan village in the island of Sitra, especially that these attacks are being launched repeatedly as the attack against Al-Himla obsequies and another in Damistan without any precautions taken.”

Bahrain Mirror (Reuters): A session of the Bahraini parliament broke up amid shouting and protests on Tuesday when several lawmakers, in a rare show of opposition to government policy, vented their anger against a rise in fuel prices.

Bahrain Mirror: Iran's Parliament (Shura Council) Speaker Ali Larijani stressed that "Saudi Arabia failed to take control of Syria and Bahrain through military operations,"