The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders Mary Lawlor has reiterated her calls to release prisoner of conscience Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja.

The ruling family has not yet disclosed the real surpluses it has gained from the increase in oil prices, as well as the ways in which these surpluses have been disbursed, which have mostly gone to private pockets or budgets for refurbishing old helicopters.

Photos posted on social media outlets showed dozens of worshippers wearing Palestinian keffiyeh alongside the Imam of Friday prayer of the Imam Al-Sadiq mosque in Diraz.

The government, headed by Crown Prince and Prime Minister Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, approved the 2023 and 2024 budgets, and referred it to the House of Representatives for discussion and approval.

Sayed Abdullah Al-Ghuraifi confirmed that the number of prisoners in the "open prisons" step is "below the expected level in light of the overcrowding of prisoners in prisons."

Preacher of Imam Al-Sadiq Mosque in Diraz, Sheikh Ali Al-Sadadi, stressed that Zionists received messages that made them dare to repeat their attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque, wondering "Does normalization mean standing next to Zionists and supporting them on these attacks, even by remaining silent?"

In a recent statement, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Jaafari Endowments, Yousef bin Saleh Al-Saleh, spoke about documenting 100 properties for the Jaafari Endowments Directorate. Although the title suggested that there were 100 properties whose documents would be received within months, the text revealed something different.

25 Bahraini societies called on the government of Bahrain to cancel all forms of normalization with the Zionist entity "in a way that contributes to preserving the sanctities and blood of the Palestinian people and respecting the will of Bahraini people."

: Ali Muhanna was summoned by Sitra Police Station for interrogation on Sunday, April 9, 2023, as part of the regime's plan to harass activists.

Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran Hossein Amir Abdollahian and his Saudi counterpart Faisal bin Fahran stressed the importance of activating and pursuing the implementation of the Beijing Agreement.

Wife of detainee Mohammad Yousif Hasan confirmed that she hasn't hear anything about her husband for 27 days.

Detainee Mohammad Hasan Najjar confirmed that the Jaw Prison administration has been preventing him for 3 years from visiting doctors despite his critical health condition and submitting evidence to the administration proving the need to schedule medical appointments for him.

Is the Government of Bahrain performing its duties? What are the achievements of this Government if it is not implementing the projects it has planned? Where do the funds for these projects disappear to?

Prisoners Affairs Authority in Bahrain has appointed former detained activist Jaafar Yahya as its spokesperson. This body was established by the Al-Wafa'a Islamic Party.

Al-Wefaq Society documented 470 human rights violations practiced by the regime, from January 1 to March 31, 2023, including 283 house raids and 36 arbitrary arrests.

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) affirmed in its 2022 annual report the continued violations, ill-treatment and deteriorating prison conditions in Bahrain, and called for imposing sanctions against officials in Bahrain under the Magnitsky Act.

The Human Rights Council Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has called on the Bahraini government to immediately and unconditionally release detained human rights defender Naji Fateel, and to conduct an impartial investigation to identify and hold perpetrators accountable.

Amnesty International confirmed in its annual report that "Bahrain continued to restrict freedoms of expression and assembly and to hold prisoners for exercising these rights."

The Court of Cassation sentenced a citizen to one month in prison over the charge of "insulting an official in a government agency" on social media outlets.

The United States announced a $350 million sale of military equipment and the refurbishing of helicopters and missile launchers to Bahrain.