Bahrain Mirror (Exclusive): The Press Office Director, Jeff Rathke, during the State Department’s Daily Press Briefing: “The important thing in this meeting with GCC leaders has been that the right people are in the discussions to carry out these kinds of important security and regional cooperation concerns.”

Bahrain Mirror: The Parliament has accepted that his MPs pension reaches 4000 Dinars and it refused the proposed amendments regarding raising the said number.

Bahrain Mirror: I am Bahraini website (www.iambahraini.org) has launched its trial version. This website is concerned in the Bahraini citizens’ cases whom the authorities have revoked their nationalities in the recent years, after the famous protests held in the LuaLua Roundabout.

Reuters: An appeals court in Bahrain upheld a six-month jail sentence against prominent dissident Nabeel Rajab on Thursday for a tweet deemed insulting to the kingdom's security establishment, state news agency BNA said.

Associated Press: A lawyer for a prominent Bahraini rights activist says an appeals court has upheld a verdict against Nabeel Rajab for insulting government ministries on Twitter.

Reuters: May 13 An Iranian-owned bank based in Bahrain has appealed a decision by local authorities to place it in administration, in a case showing the vulnerability of Iran's business interests in the Gulf as political tensions rise.

Bahrain's King Hamad bin Issa Al Khalifa has skipped a Gulf Arab summit with U.S. President Barack Obama, but is expected to join Britain's Queen Elizabeth at a horse show near London, a show representative said.

AFP: A Shiite parliamentarian in Kuwait demanded to grill the Minister of Foreign Affairs over Kuwait’s participation in the Saudi led air strikes against Huthis in Yemen.

Bahrain Mirror: The initial financial estimates of Bahrain’s general budget for the two fiscal years 2015/2016 showed a decline in the oil and gas revenues by 44.6% in comparison with 2013/2014.

Bahrain Mirror: The arrested Khalil Al-Halwachi suffered recently from a blood clot in his arm and was transferred to the military hospital for treatment without informing his family. Kahlil’s family expressed their concern over him suffering again from another clot due to the maltreatment in the Dry Dock Prison.

Bahrain Mirror (Exclusive): The council of ministers announced on Monday, May 11, 2015 that the actual deficit in last year’s budget (2014) decreased by 62%, reaching 455 million Dinars.

Bahrain Mirror: The Ministry of Interior announced the opening of more buildings in the Dry Dock Detention Center and Jaw Central Prison to embrace the increasing number of inmates who were arrested over the popular protests that erupted on 14 February 2011.

Bahrain Mirror (Exclusive): Bahraini authorities denied British artist and writer of Lebanese origin, Tania El Khoury, entry to the country on Wednesday (May 6, 2015), who sought to visit the island kingdom for art research purposes.

Sadeq al-Hubaishi: Dear President Barack Obama, I am the father of Jehad al-Hubaishi, who was arrested when he was only 16 years old and joined over 200 child political detainees currently held in Bahraini prisons. I am confident that you will take the necessary steps to address my son’s issue, as well as his friend’s, and the cases of other children.

The member of the Special Investigation Unit, Ibrahim Al-Kuwari, said the unit received last April 28 complaints, 18 of them were on allegations of torture and nine on allegations of maltreatment, while one was on allegations of using excessive force by the public security forces into which an official investigation had been launched.

Bahrain Human Rights Society said (Sunday, May 10, 2015) that it had recorded 26 arbitral arrests within the first week of May, indicating that some were released later on. Meanwhile, eight peaceful protestors were injured in Abu Saiba and Shakoura.

The Public Prosecution decided to extend the jail term of the president of Bahrain Center for Human Rights, the prominent human rights defender, Nabeel Rajab, for 15 more days pending investigation, stated the lawyer Mohammed Al-Jishi.

Witnesses who gave statements against the ministry of interior face an unknown fate. The Bahraini regime arrests, tortures and even kills the witnesses in the murdering cases to hide the truth from the public. On the other hand, it acquits the murders.

Bahrain Mirror (Exclusive): Eyewitnesses told Bahrain Mirror that on the afternoon of Friday, May 8, 2015, members of the Bahraini regime forces raided Diraz, west of Manama, surrounded Al-Sadeq Mosque and confiscated a number of speakers and political banners, in addition to the Bahraini flags the prayers use in their protests every week after Friday prayer.

Bahrain Mirror: An Interior Ministry spokesman said that the Saudi customs officials thwarted an attempt, on Friday (8 May 2015) to smuggle highly explosive load that was coming from Bahrain.