The wife of Bahraini prisoner, Alawi Hussain, said that her husband has been suffering for more than 5 months from high blood pressure, as the authorities don’t seem to allow him to receive necessary treatment.

UN human rights experts have called for the retrial of four men sentenced to death by a Bahraini military court in a collective trial that breached fair trial and due process guarantees and confessions obtained under torture.

Amnesty International issued a report on Wednesday (May 2, 2018) that includes new details about last moments of trial of suspects accused of planning to assassinate Bahrain Defence Force Commander-in-Chief Khalifa bin Ahmad. The military court upheld death sentences against 4 individuals, including 3 civilians, before the king commuted the sentences to life imprisonment.

UN human rights experts called for retrial of each of Mohammad Abdulhassan Al-Mutaghawi, Fadhel Sayed Radhi, Sayed Alawi Hussein and Mubarak Adel Mubarak Mhanna who were sentenced to death before their verdicts were commuted to life in jail, on charges of joining terrorist cell and attempting to assassinate the Bahrain Defense Force commander-in-Chief.

The Military Court of Cassation decided on Wednesday (April 11, 2018) to adjourn the case of civilians accused of plotting to assassinate Military Commander Field Marshal Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, to April 25, to issue its verdict.

A military court of appeal is due to announce its verdict on the execution of six Bahrainis convicted in a speedy trial, over charges of plotting to assassinate Commander-in-Chief Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Khalifa.

A military appeals court in Bahrain announced on Wednesday (January 31, 2018) adjourning the military commander attempted murder case until the February 21 for deliberation and sentencing.

Family of Sayed Alawi Hussain, who was sentenced to death in a military court, said that they had received phone calls from him informing them about his first family visit scheduled for next monday.

Amnesty International issued on (January 12, 2018) a statement in which it expressed grave concern about the death sentences passed against six defendants tried by the Military Court in Bahrain.

The Military Appeals Court held on Wednesday (January 10, 2018) its first session to look into appeals against the verdicts sentencing 6 to death penalty and 7 others to 7-year jail term over a political case.

Bahrain's Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society stressed that the families of civilians sentenced to death by military courts are terrified by the authorities’ measures in hiding the convicts, after the death sentences were issued against them.

Bahrain Opposition Bloc in London expressed its full rejection to all the political verdicts and trials held in Bahrain since over 7 years against prisoners of conscience in Bahrain, stressing on the necessity to stop these military courts that issued collective death sentences that are considered the first of their kind in Bahrain’s history.

Ibrahim Serhan, legal advisor in Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, commented on the verdicts issued on Monday (25/12/2017) by the military judiciary in Bahrain saying “the lawyers did not expect the death sentences since the indictment list and the military prosecution adaptation also accepted by the high military court, i.e. assassination attempt charge, was only brought against the first defendant, while the rest of the defendants were accused of inciting and supporting the first suspect”.

Four Bahraini human rights organizations issued a report under the title of "Death or Confession", a report that monitors the violations due to secret military courts that tried civilians whose confessions were extracted under torture. These civilians were accused of attempting to commit crimes against Bahrain Defense Force; they include human rights activist Mohammed Al-Mutghawi and Sayed Alawi Husain, the personal attendant of the highest religious cleric in Bahrain Sheikh Isa Qassim.

A military court postponed on Thursday (November 23, 2017) the trial of 17 Bahraini citizens convicted over political reasons until December 4.

A military court in Bahrain postponed on Monday (November 20, 2017) the trial of 9 citizens over political reasons until November 23.

The National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR) said that it attended the public trial sessions of citizens before a military court.

Bahrain prevented on Thursday (November 2, 2017) reporting in the first of its kind case in which civilians are being tried before military courts.

A telecom engineer forcibly disappeared by security forces a year ago will be among the first civilians to face a military court under an April 2017 constitutional amendment, Human Rights Watch said today.

A military court on Monday (October 23, 2017) began the first trial of 4 civilians, following a constitutional amendment allowing the military judiciary to try civilians.