The Fourth High Criminal Court, presided over by judge Badr Abdullatif Al Abdalla, issued a 10-year jail term against child Habib Jassim, 17, and a 15-year jail term against his brother, Mohammad Jassim Habib Jassim, 28.

Two UAE and Israeli companies have begun an agreement to link the communications network between the two countries and Bahrain, as part of accelerating the ongoing normalization process.

The Times of Israel newspaper published statements of Abdullah bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, an undersecretary at Bahrain's ministry of foreign affairs, who revealed for the first time that Mossad intelligence agency is active in his country.

A new investigation has revealed how NSO Group's notorious Pegasus spyware was used to infect the devices of three activists in Bahrain, once again demonstrating the grave threat which the spyware poses to critics of repressive governments, Amnesty International said.

King Fahd Causeway authorities on the Bahraini side have begun allowing those coming from Saudi Arabia to enter the country without a PCR test for all age groups.

The Public Prosecution rejected a request demanding the release of family of convict Mahmoud Ali Al-Alawi and extended their arrest for 15 additional days.

Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim called on the authorities to reverse the decision to imprison citizen Fadeela Abdulrasoul.

Bahraini Foreign Affairs Minister responded to the statements of his Qatari counterpart in which he said that there is a disagreement about the mechanisms for resolving the dispute.

A report issued by Red Line for Gulf and the Citizen Lab said that the Bahraini government used the Israeli Pegasus program to spy on prominent lawyer Mohammed Al-Tajer, psychologist Sharifa Siwar and a Bahraini journalist, whose name was not mentioned.

The Israeli occupation is participating for the first time in the International Maritime Exercise (IMX), led by the US Fifth Fleet, in the Red Sea region and the territorial waters of Bahrain, which includes 60 countries.

Qatari Foreign Affairs Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani attributed the delay in relations between his country and Bahrain to not working on mechanisms for solving the dispute, stressing at the same time that the matter is not as huge as it is being depicted.

The Bahraini authorities announced the cancellation of the PCR test and isolation period for passengers arriving in to Bahrain, as the booking for the formula one race, to be held in Bahrain on March 20, approaches.

Human rights activist, Maryam Al-Khawaja, daughter of detained human rights defender Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, said that her father chanted slogans against Israel and in support with the Palestinian people while being in Jaw Prison's yard.

The Bahraini Foreign Ministry summoned on Wednesday (February 16, 2022) the new US ambassador to Bahrain Steven Bondy. This followed the ambassador's meeting with a number of representatives of civil societies.

The Public Prosecution said that it began (Wednesday, February 16, 2022) investigating journalist Mohammad Al-Ghasra, who manages Delmon Post website, and then ordered his release.

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights said that it documented 33 protests across Bahraini areas on the 11th anniversary of February 14th uprising.

Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society said that the visit of Israeli Prime Minister to Bahrain is a declaration of the constitution's expiry.

Bahrain Society of Sociologists denied being aware that one of its members met with the US ambassador and civil society organizations official at the US State Department, stressing that it is not responsible for the consequences of the meeting.

The Guardian newspaper said that "Ahmed Jaafar's case shows how anti-democratic regimes are increasingly able to target exiled dissidents, exporting their domestic crackdown on dissent. His extradition also provoked questions about the role of Interpol."

The Bahrain Transparency Society said that its chairperson, Hussein Al-Rubai, met with the US ambassador at his home, being an economic researcher, and talked to him about the economic issue, without any prior agenda for the meeting. Al-Rubai was unaware of the people invited to the meeting.