Bahrain’s Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa issued Edict 1/2018 appointing directors at the Ministry of Health.

Bahrain has deported eight people to Iraq after they were convicted of damaging state security and stripped of citizenship, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Sunday.

Bahrain has deported eight people to war-torn Iraq after revoking their citizenship and making them stateless, Human Rights Watch said Sunday, accusing the Gulf monarchy of exiling dissidents.

The British human rights defender Sam Walton said that any democracy call in Bahrain is considered a direct threat to the ruling family, because the government mainly consists of Al Khalifa.

Al-Ayam local newspaper said that Ithmaar Bank suffers from a technical problem that displays the customers' balances incorrectly.

Bahrain Airport Company (BAC), the operator and managing body of Bahrain International Airport (BIA), issued a new tender to construct a security fence in order to develop the perimeter of the current security fence in the airport.

The First High Appeals Criminal Court upheld a 3-year jail term verdict against defendant accused of assembling and arsoning 6 trash cans.

Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) said that it monitored the arrest of 69 citizens within one week only.

The security authorities launched today at dawn a vast security campaign that resulted in the arrest of at least 3 citizens, according to a network specialized in monitoring the security raids.

The First High Appeals Criminal Court rejected the objection of a 22-year-old youth sentenced to 7 years in prison and revoked of his citizenship, for not attending his objection session. The suspect was convicted along with another one- who has been already sentenced- of joining 14 February Coalition and Al-Wafa Islamic Party, as well as collecting money for the two parties.

The Fifth High Criminal Appeals Court upheld a 5-year jail term against a defendant (21 years) over putting a hoax bomb in Isa Town and acquitted him of attempting to blast another bomb and ordered the confiscation of seized items.

The Health Ministry said that the number of Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) patients registered in the ministry and who benefit from the primary and secondary healthcare programs is about 8664, adding that 4271 are males while the remaining 4393 patients are females.

Stripped of his Bahraini citizenship and living in London exile, rights activist Sayed Ahmed Al-Wadaei says he speaks for the hundreds of opposition figures made voiceless by imprisonment back home.

Gulf officials have ruled out any plans by GCC states to raise the Value Added Tax (VAT) rate to 10 percent.

Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is back on the job as chairman of global investment firm Kingdom Holding after being released from detention in an anti-corruption campaign, the company said on Thursday.

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) strongly condemned what they called “an unprecedented wave of death sentences in Bahrain”.

The Bahraini authorities expelled on Thursday (February 1, 2018) 4 citizens, increasing the number of expelled citizens to 8 within the 4 past days.

The spiritual leader of the Shiite majority in Bahrain, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, underwent surgery Friday morning (February 2, 2018) at Ibn Al-Nafees hospital, a medical source said.

The First Deputy Speaker of the Bahraini Shura Council denied exclusion of all dual nationals from government support in Bahrain.

Bahrain's Interior Minister Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa left for London, where he met his British counterpart Amber Rudd, as part of his official visit to the UK.