The First High Appeals Court upheld a 3-month jail verdict against a Bahraini woman (39 years) over the charge of attacking a female officer and 3 policewomen in Isa Town police station.

Five Bahraini female political prisoners have gone on hunger strike to protest against ill-treatment and a glass barrier that prevents contact with visitors, a rights group said Friday.

A Bahraini female political activist and two others have been freed from detention in the island kingdom amid its crackdown on all dissent.

Bahraini detainee Rawan Sanqour’s health has been affected by the deteriorating conditions in the women's prison in Isa Town, about two weeks after her arrest, said human rights sources.

Female detainees in Bahrain have today declared they will go on an open strike after the authorities built an extra barrier to prevent imprisoned women embracing family members on visits.

The Bahraini Women Union receives tomorrow Thursday Khawla Matar, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of (ESCWA), in a meeting entitled “The Brave Bahraini Woman in Conflict Zones”.

Security forces released Wednesday dawn (April 12, 2017) the rights activist Nidal Al-Salman, after being held at the airport for more than 3 hours on her arrival from Paris.

Secretary-General of Supreme Council for Women revealed that there are serious endeavors towards making a “unified” family law in Bahrain.

Bahrain’s scholars warned the security authorities of publishing photos of arrested women and considered it an “intentional violation of the social norms, traditions and values”.

Activist Ibtisam Al-Saegh said that a large number of security forces surrounded a house in Al-Shakoura at the dawn of Saturday (February 11, 2017) and arrested a woman.

The Secretary General of the General Federation of Bahrain Trade Unions, Hassan Al Halwachi, said Bahraini women still suffer from low wages in the private sector, explaining that they receive less than 100 dinars per month in the kindergarten sector.

Bahraini security authorities summoned the wife of a prisoner on death row to appear before the Public Prosecution.

The Public Prosecution summoned on Saturday (November 12, 2016) head of the monitoring and documentation unit at the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) Enas Oun for interrogation tomorrow.

President of Bahrain Human Rights Observatory and deputy president of the dissolved Bahrain Teachers Association Jalila Al-Salman said that the authorities of King Fahd Causeway prevented her on Tuesday (August 30, 2016) from leaving the country.

The ninth minor criminal court commenced the trial of Taiba Ismail over charge of insulting the king and adjourned the case until August 30 for pleading.

Judge renewed detainee Taiba Ismail's detention for 15 days pending investigations.

The Freedoms and Human Rights Department at Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society issued a report revealing the widespread human rights and religious freedoms violations practiced by the Bahraini authorities in 2015.

Member of Bahrain Center for Human Rights, Hussain Radhi, said a court sentenced Laila Mansour Marzooq, from Bani Jamra, to 3 months in prison for standing outside a police station demanding the release of her son.

The Bahraini authorities released on Wednesday (April 20, 2016) detainee Rayhana Al-Mosawi after serving her 3-year jail term, which is considered the longest term served by a Bahraini female over politically-motivated charges.

The Bahraini office of Ombudsman said in a statement that it followed “the allegations published lately on some websites that an unknown woman was sexually assaulted in one of the Ministry of Interior’s administration offices.”