Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society considered all the sacrifices and the targeting of its men, entity and cadres to be cheap compared to the interest of the nation and all the citizens.

The United States on Wednesday voiced concern over ally Bahrain's sentencing of the head of the country's Shiite opposition movement, although it stopped short of threatening countermeasures.

The US Department of State expressed its concern by the verdict sentencing Al-Wefaq Secretary-General Sheikh Ali Salman to life in prison.

Bahrain's prominent scholars called for a popular week of rage in response to what they described as "national and legitimate appeal" against normalization with Israel and the life sentence issued against Al-Wefaq Secretary General Sheikh Ali Salman.

Democrat candidate in the US elections whom Bahrain expelled in 2014, after meeting members of Al-Wefaq society, won in the elections.

France expressed its concern over the sentence issued against Sheikh Ali Salman, secretary-general of the Al-Wefaq Society, the main Bahraini opposition force.

British MP Lord Paul Scrivenþ said in a tweet that he wrote to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to express his disappointment for their weak statement on the unlawful life sentence against political leader, Sheikh Ali Salman in Bahrain.

The European Union criticized the life sentence issued by the appeals court in Bahrain against Secretary-General of the dissolved Al-Wefaq political society, who is already serving a 4-year jail sentence.

The British “The Financial Times” newspaper said that the life term ruling by the Supreme Court of Appeal against Sheikh Ali Salman, head of the Al-Wefaq, and two other members of the movement, risks heightening tensions ahead of the November 24 polls.

Bahraini Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected the statement issued by the Government of Qatar which condemned mentioning its name in the “Spy Case” in which opposition leader, Sheikh Ali Salman, is accused and sentenced to life in jail.

Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) strongly condemned the ruling issued on Sunday (November 4, 2018) sentencing Al-Wefaq Secretary-General Sheikh Ali Salman and former 2 MPs, Sheikh Hasan Sultan and Ali Al-Aswad, to life in prison.

Al-Wefaq former MP Ali Al-Aswad said that “the life term sentences are the clearest examples on farce of justice in Bahrain”.

General Secretariat of the General Conference of the Arab parties issued a statement condemning the court of appeals verdict against Sheikh Ali Salman, one of the prominent opposition leaders.

Commenting on the verdict issued against opposition leader, Sheikh Ali Salman, Qatar denied its involvement in what it’s known as Qatar spy case and called on Bahrain to deal with the international community more seriously.

Bahrain’s religious scholars stressed that “the regime has lost its legitimacy and has sentenced itself to a life separation from people on the day in which its corrupt judges and judiciary sentenced his Eminence Sheikh Ali Salman, Sheikh Hasan Sultan and Mr. Ali Al-Aswad to life in jail.”

The Islamic Republic of Iran condemned the verdict sentencing prominent opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman and two former Al-Wefaq MPs to life in prison.

Opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman commented on the verdict sentencing him to life in jail saying “Allah suffices me, for He is the best disposer of affairs”. This came in a phone call with his family.

Hezbollah condemned the “unjust sentence” handed down by the Bahraini regime's courts to life imprisonment of the head of the Bahraini opposition, Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society's Secretary General, Sheikh Ali Salman, as well as the former members of the parliament Sheikh Hasan Sultan and Ali Al-Aswad.

Amnesty International said the Appeals court’s decision against opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman demonstrates the Bahraini authorities' relentless and unlawful efforts to silence any form of dissent.

The Bahrain Forum for Human Rights (BFHR) called on member states of the Human Rights Council to freeze Bahrain's membership in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which the government had joined under Law No. 56 of 2006 issued on August 12, 2006.