Bahrain's Interior Minister acted in advance of the 2019 Ashura season by making threats during his meeting with the Jaafari Endowments chairman, members of the Husseini processions committee and a number of heads of obsequies on Sep. 3, 2019, saying that "political slogans will not be allowed to be raised in the Ashura season of 1441 Hijri."

In July 2018, the Bahraini authorities allowed the spiritual leader of the Shia majority in Bahrain, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, to leave the country to receive treatment, thus Sheikh Isa traveled to the British capital, London.

The country witnessed a whirlpool after Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman visited Ayatollah Sayed Al-Ghuraifi in his home on May 1st. Al-Ghuraifi hoped during the visit that there will be political determination to reform the current situation in Bahrain.

Bahrain's public debt has set a new record surpassing the 13 billion dinar ceiling, despite a Gulf-backed structural plan which aims at achieving a balance between revenues and expenses.

2018 ended with former Bahrain national football team player Hakeem Al-Araibi still held in a Thai prison, awaiting a final decision from the judiciary regarding his extradition to Manama, despite the fact that he entered Thailand having refugee status in Australia.

Bahrain Mirror (2019 Roundup): Three martyrs passed away in 2019, two of whom were killed by gunfire and the third died due to inhaling tear gas while taking part in a protest against the execution of two death sentences. The attorney-general announced in a statement on July 27, 2019 that the authorities executed two individuals, Ali Al-Arab (25 years old) and Ahmad Al-Malali (23 years old), after being convicted in an alleged charge of aiding detainees escape from Jaw Prison on January 1, 2017 and killing officer Hisham Al-Hammadi on January 29, 2017.