Bahrain Mirror: The British Embassy in Bahrain announced that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister for the Middle East and North Africa, Tobias Ellwood, during his meeting with Bahraini officials highlighted that there is still significant work to be done to strengthen police accountability.

Bahrain Mirror: The Crown Prince, Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, met the UK Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond and Defence secretary, Michael Fallon, and discussed cooperation and coordination between the two states and issues of security and stability

Data in massive cache of leaked secret bank account files from HSBC’s Swiss banking arm was made public by dozens of major media outlets. Prominent figures, who were HSBC clients were implicated in these files, and among them was Bharain’s Crown Prince Salman Bin Hamad Al Khalifa.