The Fourth High Criminal Court convicted 12 defendants, including 3 employees of the Ports Department, of the crime of accepting a "financial bribe" in exchange for distorting the data of the government's electronic system and allowing the renewal of entry and exit visas to the Kingdom.

A prominent human rights group has written to Formula One CEO Stefano Domenicali to raise serious concerns over what it claims is the sport's ongoing role in "sportswashing" ahead of the Bahrain Grand Prix.

Prominent Shiite cleric Sayed Abdullah Al-Ghuraifi expressed in a speech that "When intentions are true, convictions become closer, wills collaborate, words become open, [good] climates are created, dialogues are established, and options are wisely chosen, for the homeland remains a homeland of love, righteousness and reform."

Three United Nations Special Procedures offices published on their website on 16 February 2023 an allegation letter sent to the government of Bahrain to express concern over the arrest of 4 citizens in October 2021, three of whom were minors and were arrested without a warrant.

Sheikh Mahdi Al-Hazeem, the Friday preacher at the "Imam Hussein Mosque" in Kuwait, warned of the continued "bad behavior" of some customs officials at the Abdali-Safwan port towards Bahrainis, warning that this "harms Kuwait's reputation and ignites strife."

The Bahrain Forum for Human Rights warned of the deteriorating health condition of prisoner of conscience Ahmed Jaafar due to the torture, ill treatment and denial of treatment he is being subjected to.

Preacher of Imam Al-Sadiq Mosque in Diraz, Sheikh Mohammad Sanqour, called on people to stop saying that "religion and religious people have nothing to do with political and economic reform.

Americans for Human Rights and Democracy in Bahrain denounced the deception practiced by the authorities against political prisoners by canceling their medical appointments, including prisoner Mohammad Hasan Abdullah Al-Ramel, who is in his 60s and is sentenced to life imprisonment.

The Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society confirmed that the aim of the Interior Ministry's announcement of its reopening of prisons is "to arrest every citizen who thinks about expressing his opinion or demanding his rights."

Bahrain Press Association said that Bahraini female journalists did not assume any senior position in the media outlets in Bahrain after the 2011 events of 2011, noting that "the political system uses women as chess pieces to beautify, show, and polish the kingdom's image internationally."

Consultant General and Laparoscopic Surgeon Dr. Abdunabi Al-Aradi confirmed that the health system in Bahrain is "in deterioration", considering that "whoever took the decision to empty the Al-Salmaniya Hospital of Bahraini medical staff and replace it with foreigners will not retreat from his decisions."

Al-Wefaq issued a booklet for its detained Secretary-General, Sheikh Ali Salman, entitled "Monopoly of Power", in which it relied on Sheikh Salman's "Home Plea" which he wrote in prison on October 14, 2015, and diagnosed Bahrain's problem and ways to solve it.

Political prisoners in Jaw Central Prison said that they will go on an open strike if the prison's administration continues to neglect their just demands which they talked about in their audio messages from prison and explained the suffering and ill-treatment they are subjected to.

Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah criticized the UAE and Bahrain's normalization with Israel, stressing the lack of progress in the peace process since the signing of the Abraham Accords.

The Lebanese Al-Akhbar Newspaper issued an inclusive file entitled "Bahrain: Kingdom of Brutality...and Normalization," on the 12th anniversary of February 14 uprising.

Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) said that it seeks to punish Interior Minister Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa under the "Magnitsky" law.

The Cassation Court accepted on Monday (February 20, 2023) the Public Prosecution's appeal against the acquittal of citizen Fadeela Abdulrasoul, her husband Sayed Radhi Al-Alawi and his brother Sayed Jaafar Al-Alawi, and ordered their retrial in a politicized case.

Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassin praised the commemoration of the 12th anniversary of the February 14 uprising in "effective and civilized methods full of firm determination," noting that it is a "testament to the fact that the government's violence has not and will not break the will of the people.

Israeli diplomats and officers are now coming to Manama to participate in training courses for Bahraini diplomatic cadres at the Mohammed bin Mubarak Al Khalifa Institute affiliated with the Bahraini Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Prominent human rights defender and founding member of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), Nabeel Rajab, received the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders in Geneva. It is to note that Rajab received the same award 11 years earlier.