Bahrain’s Court of Cassation overturned on Monday (October 17, 2016) a death penalty verdict against 3 defendants, life-imprisonment to 7 others and revoking nationality of 8 of them over killing Emirate officer and 2 other policemen in Al-Daih.

A top court in Bahrain on Monday overturned a nine-year jail term against Shiite opposition chief cleric Ali Salman, convicted of inciting hatred and calling for forceful regime change.

Bahrain's state news agency says a court has stripped five people linked to radical Shiite groups of their citizenship and ordered them jailed after convicting them on terrorism charges.

Family of Mahmoud Khawori, Ettifaq football player, said authorities want to deport him to Lebanon in coming days.

Index on Censorship said in a statement published online that "Bahrain, in particular, has intensified the use of stripping citizenship from those who dissent or speak out in protest as a form of punishment" and that "these practices and threats should immediately cease and all those who have fallen victim should have their citizenship restored. It is their right."

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office said that Bahrain achieved progress on human rights in Bahrain throughout 2015, although challenges remain, indicating that the Government of Bahrain continued to take steps to implement its human rights and political reform agenda.

The Second High Criminal (Appeals) Court set May 23, 2016 as a date for issuing a verdict, concerning the expulsion of lawyer Taymour Karimi after his citizenship was revoked alongside 30 other Bahrainis.

Bahrain's Second High (Appeals) Criminal Court adjourned the case of lawyer Taymour Karimi and nine others who were stripped of their citizenships until March 9, 2016, in order to bring a royal decree.

Bahrain Mirror: The local Bahraini Al-Wasat newspaper stated that the number of Bahrainis stripped for their nationalities since the eruption of the 2011 protests to date has reached 210, following the latest court verdict, revoking the citizenships of 13 Bahrainis on November 23, 2015

The wife of Farhat Khorshid, whose Bahraini nationality has been revoked, said that the social insurance refused to pay her husband's financial dues