Bahrain Mirror: Bahrain�s First High Criminal Court, presided over by judge Mohammed bin Ali Al Khalifa began looking into the case of the accused journalist Hani Al-Fardan and editor-in-chief of Al-Wasat Newspaper, Mansour Al-Jamri, who are charged with slandering an extremist Salafist Member of Parliament named Abdul Halim Murad.

Bahrain Mirror: For the third successive year, Bahrain maintained its global ranking in �Freedom House� annual report for press freedom. Bahrain ranked 188 worldwide. It was classified as �not free� in the press freedom index for 2014 and the second worst Arab country after Syria.