On Monday (December 12, 2016) night, hashtags #IRunNabeelRajabAccount and #ITweetFromNabeelRajabAccount were widely circulated on Twitter, in both English and Arabic languages, in a supporting campaign for Nabeel Rajab.

Freedom House listed Bahrain in its annual Freedom on the Net report for 2016 among the 26 “Not Free" countries that implement tight censorship on online content.

Bahraini prominent opposition figure Ebrahim Sharif strongly criticized his summoning for questioning over meeting with British Embassy official

Tweeter Nader Abdulimam said that the Bahraini authorities handed him a notice on Wednesday (November 16, 2016) ordering him to appear before the public prosecution for interrogation.

The High Appeals court amended the First Instance Court's verdict, sentencing the owner of "Haji Ahmed" twitter account to 3 years instead of 5. The authorities accuse Haji Ahmed of "insulting the forces taking part in the decisive storm and spreading false news and rumors that would endanger and intimidate people in war time".

Marc Owen Jones writes about his “discovery of thousands of fake twitter accounts polluting hashtags around Persian Gulf with anti-Shia and anti-Iranian propaganda.”

Repeatedly have the Bahraini authorities arrested political activists and human rights defenders for sending certain tweets via their personal accounts.

A Bahraini court postponed the trial of president of Bahrain Center for Human Rights and prominent activist Nabeel Rajab until December 15, instead of issuing a verdict against him.

A Bahraini official had ridiculed the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi on his own Twitter account before he deleted the post. Ibrahim bin Khalifa Al-Dosari, the Assistant Undersecretary for Information and Follow-up at the Prime Minister's Court, said “one of the most important traits of a person who has pride is to have a refrigerator that only has water for 10 years.”

The US State Department said it rejects all charges against prominent rights activist Nabeel Rajab, confirming that it is following his case very closely, is demanding his release.

Margaret Ferrier, MP in House of Commons posted a tweet in which she said “I have today written to the PM Theresa May to demand that she raise Bahrain human rights issues with the King when she meets with him

The Security authorities summoned on Sunday (October 9, 2016) the Bahraini journalist Faisal Hayyat and asked him to “immediately appear” for interrogation.

The National Democratic Action Society (Wa’ad) believed that the statements of Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa praising former Zionist President, Shimon Peres, were unacceptable.

The Israeli Haaretz newspaper said that Bahrain's Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa’ tweet was the first public reaction to Peres' death by a leader of the Arab world, aside from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

Bahrain's foreign minister paid tribute to Israel's former president Shimon Peres on Thursday, in a surprise statement that drew strong Arab criticism on social media.

The second major court headed by Judge Badr Al-Abdullah upheld a 1-year imprisonment sentence against a Bahraini woman, for insulting the judiciary in public.

A Bahraini court sentenced a tweeter to two years in prison with the execution of the sentence and accused him of insulting the king and inciting hatred against the regime.

The high criminal court renewed the detention of 3 tweeters for 15 days pending investigation over insulting the king

A Bahraini court renewed the detention of Taiba Ismail for 15 more days over the charge of “insulting the king” through tweets. This means that she will spend two months in the pre-detention prison.

Twitter suspended 1800 sectarian bot accounts after activity from suspicious accounts Tweeting content justifying move against Sheikh Qassim.