Bahrain Mirror: Hisham Al-Zayani, a regular columnist in Al-Watan newspaper funded by the Bahraini Royal Court, wrote an article in which he described Obama as a Shiite. Tweeters and Bahraini activists seized this opportunity to launch a series of jokes.

Bahrain Mirror: Bahrain's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Khalid Al Khalifa, rejected US calls to Bahrain regarding releasing the prominent human rights defender, Nabeel Rajab, and dropping the charges against him (in the two cases).

Bahrain Mirror: Jordanian figures indicated that 1,200 teachers from Jordan have applied for employment in Bahrain at the request of its Ministry of Education. Meanwhile the Ministry did not disclose the number of vacancies it wants to fill with Jordanian teachers.

Bahrain Mirror: Bahrain High Criminal Court, headed by Judge Sheikh Mohammed bin Ali Al Khalifa and membership of the two judges, Dia Huraidi and Saber Jomaa, and secretariat of Naji Abdullah, has commenced the trial of 5 Bahrainis accused of spying with Iran's Revolutionary Guard aiming at carrying out explosions and destabilizing security.

Bahrain Mirror: The 76-year-old Bahraini caricaturist, Abdullah Al Muharraqi, published a racist caricature against the Pakistanis after the Parliament of Pakistan decided last week not to take part in the war against Yemen and backed neutrality in the conflict.

Bahrain Mirror (Exclusive): The ILO report exposes the complicated trade union situation in Bahrain, especially in major companies that are waging an organized war against trade unions affiliated to the general federation.

Bahrain Mirror (Exclusive): The Under-secretary for Resources and Services at Bahrain’s Ministry of Education, Hisham Bin Abdul Aziz Al Khalifa, stated that (Thursday April 9, 2015) was his last day in office at the ministry of education, confirming the reports saying that some officials resigned after being questioned.

Bahrain Mirror (Exclusive): The US State Department called on the Government of Bahrain to drop charges against the president of Bahrain Centre for Human Rights and prominent human rights activist Nabeel Rajab, and demanded that the authorities release him immediately.

Bahrain Mirror: Families of the arrested Ali Al-Singace, Ali Haji and Mohsen Badaw know nothing about their sons’ fate nor whereabouts since they were arrested on April 2nd. The families of the three detainees expressed their deep concerns that their sons might be subjected to torture.

The International Labour Organization's Committee on Freedom of Association deplored that the investigations into the allegations of torture and mistreatment of the president and vice-president of the Bahrain Teachers Association, Abu Dheeb and Jalila al-Salman, have not yet been concluded.

Bahrain Mirror: Freedom House lists Bahrain as “Not Free”, regarding the gulf kingdom’s political rights and civil liberties. Bahrain’s political rights rating declined from 6 to 7, which is the lowest level of freedom on a scale of 1 to 7.

In the "Nuclear Agreement" time, Bahrain's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Khalid Bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa continues to spread false information and videos against Iran. The Bahraini authorities; however, arrested Nabeel Rajab over charges of broadcasting rumors about war against Yemen.

Ali Al-Singace was arrested last Thursday on April 2nd, 2015 in an ambush in Diraz village. He is the youth, whose kidnapping at the hands of the security force in Sanabis gained widespread popularity in 2012, as photographs emerged of him lying down in a garage of one of the houses, unconscious and stripped of his clothes.

Reports indicated that one of Al-Jaafari Waqf employees broke in the southern minaret door of Ras Ruman Mosque by force, on Sunday, (April 5th 2015), before taking down a religious banner from atop the minaret.

Bahrain Mirror (Exclusive): Policemen entering a home, walking on broken glass shattered after a robbery. The home belongs to one of the diplomats in Washington. They hear a sound coming from inside, after following it they find an old woman in a room locked from outside.

Bahrain Mirror (Exclusive): A group of lawyers in London are threatening to prosecute the UK government to revoke its decision of establishing a permanent military base in Bahrain.

Bahrain Mirror (Exclusive): The deputy chief of Dubai police and public security, Dhahi Khalfan Tamim, has described the book “After the Sheikhs”, by the British academic Dr. Christopher Davidson, that it is “filled with insults” and questioned the role of the Bahraini opposition in financing it.

Bahrain Mirror: Kuwait General Administration of Customs denied any responsibility in regards to finding detonators and bomb-making equipment with a Bahraini passenger aboard bus which came from Iraq and passed through Kuwaiti territory

Bahrain Mirror (Exclusive): Bahrain’s government abruptly suspends the accreditation of more than 100 Chinese universities. Sources say Shia account for almost all of the students going into Chinese medical schools from Bahrain and suggest this was a way for the authorities to punish a community they blame for the ongoing unrest in the kingdom.

Summary: Reporters Without Borders launched a major operation to unblock 9 censored websites, including Bahrain Mirror website, in defiance of 11 countries that are on its list of “Enemies of the Internet.”