Bahrain Mirror: The Bahraini Public Prosecution decided to take an American citizen into preventive custody for a week over attacking a Bahraini taxi driver.

Bahrain Mirror: Bahrain’s Foreign Minister, Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, posted on his personal Twitter account that the assault on the taxi driver will not pass without strict legal measures.

Bahrain Mirror (Exclusive): Bahrain’s Ministry of Interior announced (June 7, 2015) that it arrested a number of individuals accused of “carrying out terrorist acts,” and foiled a “terrorist” plot aimed at threatening the kingdom’s security.

Bahrain Mirror: Bahraini clerics called on the citizens of Bahrain to stage mass protests, next Friday, under the slogan “We will Not Leave the Secretary-General” to express their opposition to the “unjust” trial of Sheikh Ali Salman, Secretary-General of Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, and to voice their “complete solidarity with Sheikh Ali Salman and all the oppressed prisoners.”

Bahrain Mirror: The minister of health met with unemployed doctors in his office in Juffair to discuss their delayed employment. He promised them that the recruitment process will take place and urged them to be patient.

Bahrain Mirror (Exclusive): Bahrain’s Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society issued on Monday (June 8, 2015) its annual report of 2014, entitled: “Reform in Bahrain: Game of Numbers,” referring to the courts in Bahrain that have issued prison sentences over political issues that amount up to 11,000 years.

Bahrain Mirror: Amnesty International said in a message (June 4, 2015) to Al-Wefaq it is greatly concerned with the trial of Sheikh Ali Salman. It reminded of its first statement upon the arrest of Salman in December 2014 where it called for his release because the organization believes the accusations against him lack evidence of his use of or incitement on violence.

Bahrain Mirror (Exclusive): OHCHR said it is concerned about two individuals currently in detention in Bahrain, namely Sheikh Ali Al-Salman and Nabeel Rajab and about the harsh treatment of detainees at Jaw Prison, calling for speedy and effective investigations into torture of Bahraini prisoners and immediate release of Sheikh Ali Salman.

Bahrain Mirror: The Commander-in-Chief of the Bahraini army, Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Khalifa said that “Operation Decisive Storm” settled the matter of “regional influence, control and dominance,” claiming that the countries in the region “responded to Allah and his prophet to defend the two holy mosques.

Bahrain Mirror: Niccolò Talamanca, Secretary-General of the Rome-based international non-governmental organization “No Peace Without Justice”, called for the release of Sheikh Ali Salman, Secretary-General of Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, describing the detention as absurd.

Awal Centre for Studies and Documentation will open its doors to visitors, for the first time, on Monday and Tuesday (June 8 and 9, 2015) from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m., making available more than 10,000 documents on Bahrain, namely the period of martial law (State of National Safety) from mid-March 2011 until the end of May 2011, marking International Archives Day.

Reuters: Bahrain said on Sunday (Jun 7th 2015) it had broken up a banned anti-government Shi'ite Muslim group behind a series of attacks and arrested several of its members.

Bahrain Mirror: Hadi Al-Musawi, head of the Al-Wefaq's human rights department, issued Sunday (May 31, 2015) a report about Jaw Central Prison, entitled “Jaw Prison Unrest: Testimonies made with broken teeth.”

Bahrain Mirror (Exclusive): Claire Beaugrand, a researcher at the French Institute of the Near East, presented a research paper entitled, “Bahraini Activism in Exile: Legacies and Revolutionary Ruptures” on Wednesday (June 3, 2015) during a seminar entitled “Social Movements and Popular Mobilisation in the Middle East and North Africa”.

Bahrain Mirror (Exclusive): Member of the European-Bahraini Organization for Human Rights, Ahmed al-Saffar, stated on Thursday (June 4, 2015) that the authorities in Bahrain’s Dry Dock Prison are not allowing clothes to be delivered to the detainees and are forcing them to buy clothes from the prison at high prices.

Bahrain Mirror: Bahrain’s Minister of Information Affairs Isa Abdulrahman Al-Hammadi stressed (Monday, June 1, 2015) that the steps taken by the ministry of interior in cooperation with the Jaffaria Endowment Directorate are preemptive measures, aimed at maintaining security and stability in the country and guaranteeing the safety of the kingdom’s citizens and residents.

Bahrain Mirror (Exclusive): The family of detainee Hasan Mushaima’, Secretary-General of the Haq Movement for Liberty and Democracy, stated on Wednesday (June 3, 2015) that he is rejecting visits since more than a 100 days, after special Jordanian forces raided Jaw Central prison on March 10, 2015.

Bahrain Mirror: Yusuf Al-Muhafda, deputy head of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), stated that the European Union Special Representative for Human Rights, Stavros Lambrinidis, paid a visit to human rights defender and political prisoner,BCHR President, Nabeel Rajab, in prison.

Bahrain Mirror: The chairman of the Sunni endowment (Waqf) Directorate, Salman bin Isa Al Khalifa, stressed on Tuesday (June 2, 2015) the importance of Friday prayer preachers’ role in “forming a moderate thought and adhering to Islam in order to prevent bloodshed”.

Bahrain Mirror: The Bahraini extremist Mohammed Al-Binali, one of the militants of the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), announced the death of his friend Abu Talha Al-Bahraini stating that it took place during a battle in the northern countryside of Aleppo.