Bahrain Mirror: Commenting on the statement issued by the Bahraini Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding Sheikh Ali Salman’s sentence, the Bahrain Forum for Human Rights’ Legal researcher, Logiana Dadai, said: “The ministry’s justifications are void and lack any grounds.”

Reuters: Fitch Ratings has downgraded National Bank of Bahrain's (NBB) and BBK B.S.C.'s (BBK) Long-term Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) to 'BBB-' from 'BBB'.

Bahrain Mirror (Exclusive): On March 15, 2015, reports emerged about a bus being stopped on the King Fahd Causeway with Bahraini visitors from Iraq on board. Bahrain’s interior ministry claimed that this took place after finding a bag packed with “explosives” on the vehicle and took a 13-year-old boy, who was among the passengers, into custody.

Bahrain Mirror: A cable issued by the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs showed that Bahrain had called on the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to take collective action in order to pressure the countries that imposed the arms embargo on the island kingdom.

Bahrain Mirror: Bahrain’s Parliament Financial and Economic Affairs Committee member MP Abdulrahman Buali highlighted that the Parliament’s support provided to the Ministry of Interior and the ministry’s budget would not be affected.

Bahrain Mirror: Tom Malinowski, the US Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, said that Bahrain’s opposition leader, Sheikh Ali Salman, was “sentenced to 4 years in prison for a speech.”

Bahrain Mirror (Exclusive): The Swedish member of the European Parliament, Lars Adaktusson, said that Sheikh Ali Salman’s sentence to four years in prison reflects the escalating pressure by the government to try to silence dissident voices in the island.

Bahrain Mirror (Exclusive): The Bahraini authorities released on Friday (June 19, 2015), Ibrahim Sharif, the Secretary-General of WAAD (National Democratic Action Society) after serving four years in prison.

Bahrain Mirror: The semi-official Iranian Mehr News Agency stated that the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected "the allegations of a Bahraini security official against Iran" and called on the Bahraini officials "to provide the necessary conditions for serious talks instead of adopting a security and sectarian approach."

Bahrain Mirror: The Secretariat of Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society called for international and regional support (June 16, 2015) to establish a serious national dialogue and negotiation to end the political predicament that has engulfed the country.

AFP: Bahrain released at dawn on Saturday a Sunni opposition leader who was jailed more than four years for involvement in Shiite-led anti-government protests, his party announced.

Bahrain Mirror: The Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society stated that the Bahraini Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a bombastic statement that reflects the regime’s shock at the wide international reaction at the conviction of Al-Wefaq’s Secretary-General, Sheikh Ali Salman.

AP: A top Bahraini opposition leader was released Friday after more than four years in prison for his role in protests calling for reform in the Gulf kingdom.

Bahrain Mirror: Activist Hussein Pervez reported from his father, detainee Mohammed Jawad Pervez, that the Secretary-General of Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, Sheikh Ali Salman, has been transferred to block 7 in Jaw Central Prison.

Bahrain Mirror: The February 14 Coalition denounced the verdict issued against the Secretary-General of Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, Sheikh Ali Salman, describing it as “political and unjust”.

Bahrain Mirror: The outgoing British Ambassador Iain Lindsay delivered his farewell speech, saying that during his four-year assignment as Britain’s Ambassador to the Kingdom of Bahrain, he witnessed “a remarkable transformation in UK/Bahrain relations” since 2011.

Bahrain Mirror (Exclusive): Jalila Al-Salman, deputy president of Bahrain Teachers Association, received the 2015 Arthur Svensson Prize for Trade Union Rights this week in the Norwegian capital, Oslo.

Bahrain Mirror: Abdullah Al-Shamlawi, one of the defence lawyers of Al-Wefaq Secretary-General, Sheikh Ali Salman, said that they have lodged an appeal against the sentence handed down to the opposition leader.

AFP: Bahrain has seized explosives and bomb-making material smuggled into the country from Iraq and intended to be used in the kingdom and in Saudi Arabia, the interior ministry said Thursday.

Bahrain Mirror: The United Kingdom expressed its concern at the 4-year-jail term handed down to Bahrain’s opposition leader, Sheikh Ali Salman.