An international media watchdog group says the Arab Gulf state of Bahrain has revoked the citizenship of seven journalists and social media activists since a wave of anti-government protests broke out seven years ago.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Sunday that the Bahraini authorities have deported eight stateless Bahrainis, whom they had previously stripped of their citizenship, over charge of “damaging state security.”

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 Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, the largest opposition political society in Bahrain, said the regime is practicing “forced displacement of indigenous Bahrainis by revoking their nationalities and then demanding that they leave Bahrain since they are rendered stateless.”

The Fourth High Criminal Court in Bahrain, headed by Judge Ali Khalifa Al Dhahrani, unanimously ruled on Thursday (February 1, 2018) sentencing Mousa Abdullah Mousa Jaafar to death on charges of killing a policeman in the Karana bombing.

A Bahraini court today issued harsh sentences against 58 defendants in the case involving the Jaw Prison escape, harboring of fugitives and killing of police officer Al-Hammadi.

The Bahraini security authorities deported brothers Ibrahim and Ismail Darwish to the Republic of Iraq on Monday morning (January 29, 2018).

Bahrain is expected to expel a number of its citizens from the country on Monday (January 29, 2018) after stripping them of their nationalities five years ago.

Bahrain’s supreme court on Monday upheld a one-year jail term for Shiite spiritual leader Sheikh Isa Qassim and confirmed a decision to revoke the cleric's citizenship, a legal source said.

A Bahraini cassation court upheld on Monday (January 29, 2018) a one year suspended prison verdict, and citizenship revocation again spiritual leader of Shia majority, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim.

A court ordered the deportation of four Bahraini nationals, including one woman, five years after a decree stripping them of their nationalities as part of the list of 31 Bahraini dissidents.

The First High Appeals Criminal Court rejected the appeals of a suspect sentenced to 3 years in prison and stripped of his citizenship.

The Fourth High Criminal Court presided over by judge Khalifa Al-Dahrani issued life term sentences against 10 defendants accused in “Nuwaidrat warehouse” case.

A Bahraini military court sentenced on Monday (December 25, 2017) 6 citizens to death, 15 years in prison and revoked their nationality in a case related to plotting to assassinate Bahrain Defence Force Commander-in-Chief field marshal Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Khalifa. The court also sentenced 7 others to seven years in jail and revoked their citizenship. Meanwhile, it acquitted 5 defendants.

The High Court of Appeal (December 13, 2017) upheld on Wednesday a 10-year prison term for a member of the ISIS group, also revoking his nationality.

The High Appeals Court upheld penalties issued against 22 suspects in a politically motivated case, in which the government accuse them, along with others, of establishing “terrorist group”.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) denounced on Wednesday (November 8, 2017) the harsh prison sentences issued by Bahraini courts against a blogger and a journalist.

Bahraini citizen convicted of “insulting the king” and stripped of his nationality has been deported to Iraq after serving a two-year jail sentence, Amnesty International said on Friday.

Bahrain's lower court jailed 10 Shiite men for life on Tuesday on charges of plotting attacks a day after the Gulf state sentenced 19 others to lengthy prison terms