Bahrain’s scholars called for staging angry protests all over the Bahraini villages, refusing the death sentences and “to save the innocent death row defendants.”

The Supreme Court of Appeal upheld a first degree verdict ruling the 15-year imprisonment of 3 accused of bombing and setting fire to the Formula 1 petrol station. The court also upheld a 3-year prison sentence against a fourth defendant.

Bahraini rights activist Sayed Ahmed AlWadaei said that security authorities in "Jaw" Central Prison phones this morning the families of 3 death row detainees and asked them to be present at the prison premises. The detainees were accused of a blast claimed that lives of an Emirati officer and two Pakistani policemen.

The third minor criminal court handed down 6-month jail term to eulogy citer Mahdi Sahwan over assembling outside Sheikh Isa Qassim's house in Diraz and taking part in an unlicensed gathering. The court acquitted Sahwan of charge of inciting hatred against the regime and set 100BD as a bail to stop the execution of the sentence.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in its 2017 World Report that “Bahrain stepped up its repression of activists and government critics during 2016”.

The First High Criminal Court sentenced 3 defendants to 1 year in prison over acquiring arms and ammunitions, fined each of them 200 BD and ordered the confiscation of seized arms and ammunitions.

The First High Criminal Court sentenced 2 defendants to 5 years in prison over beating another man, claiming that he works as an informant.

Four human rights organizations condemned the death penalty against the detainees Abass Al-Samei, Sami Mushaima and Ali Al-Singace (accused of killing an Emirati officer during clashes with protestors in a village east of the capital, Manama, in March 2014).

The High Criminal Court adjourned the case of 138 defendants until February 19 to listen to the attesting witness. The defendants were accused of establishing and joining the "Zulfiqar Brigades", collaborating with Iran's Revolutionary Guards, blasting 19 bomb attacks and planting hoax bombs in several areas across Bahrain.

British "Reprieve" denounced on its website the three death sentences against three Bahraini men Abbas al-Samea, Sami Mushaima, and Ali al-Singace.

The second High Criminal Court of Appeals acquitted 5 policemen of torturing a convict in Jaw prison.

A Bahraini court on Monday upheld death sentences against three people convicted of killing police including an Emirati officer in a bomb attack, a judicial source said.

The Court of Cassation upheld on Monday (January 9, 2017) the death sentence against three defendants over Al-Daih blast that killed an Emirati officer and two policemen.

The security authorities released on Saturday (January 7, 2017) journalist Faisal Hayyat after serving his 3-month jail verdict.

The Supreme Court of Appeal amended a verdict against two appellants, as they would be sentenced to 3 years in prison instead of 5, in a case accusing 11 defendants of burning tires and taking part in “illegal” assembly in the Bahraini town of Karana.

The Supreme Court of Appeal upheld a 1-year prison verdict ruled against a 22-year-old defendant accused of physically assaulting a police officer in the Dry Dock preventive detention center.

The Fifth High Criminal Court ruled a 3-year prison verdict against an underage defendant (17 years old), in a case linked to installing a fake bomb in the Bahraini town of Sitra.

Bahrain’s prosecution on Thursday extended by two weeks the detention of Shiite opposition leader Nabil Rajab over spreading “false information” about the Sunni-ruled kingdom, his lawyer said.

Bahraini death row detainee Mohammad Ramadan, confirmed that the detainees in solitary confinement in "Jaw" Prison live in "terrible conditions", since 10 prisoners managed to escape last Sunday.

The Ministry of Interior reiterated in a statement (Thursday January 5, 2016), its calls upon anyone with information about the 10 prisoners who escaped “Jaw” Prison last Sunday, to come forward.