The General Directorate of Verdicts Implementation and Alternative Penalties, directed by Khalid bin Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa, son of Interior Minister, announced the graduation of "Alternative penalties" course, in the presence of the British Deputy Ambassador, Stuart Summers.

The British Foreign and Commonwealth office announced on Tuesday (April 9, 2019) appointing Roderick Drummond as UK Ambassador to the Kingdom of Bahrain in succession to Simon Martin.

British Minister of State for the Middle East and North Africa Alistair Burt announced welcoming what he called “continuing progress and commitment to the democratic process in Bahrain”.

The upcoming parliamentary elections in Bahrain, scheduled for November 24, 2018, are occurring in a repressive political environment that is not conducive to free elections, Human Rights Watch said in a statement.

32 British MPs have so far signed a petition deploring the degrading treatment of political prisoner and criticizing the ongoing arrest of Bahraini opposition leaders who were subjected to torture and unlawfully convicted by a military court in 2011.

The British military attaché in Bahrain, Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Price, said that improvised explosive devices in the streets of Bahrain “blown up by terrorists” pose a threat to Bahrainis every day.

Ebrahim Sharif spent one full year in prison before he was released on (July 11, 2016). He then returned to his political and media activism where his opinions on his own Twitter account were a source of nuisance to the regime.

Bahraini prominent opposition figure Ebrahim Sharif strongly criticized his summoning for questioning over meeting with British Embassy official

The British Embassy in Bahrain said that the British Secretary of State for International Trade Liam Fox visited Bahrain on Sunday (September 18, 2016) and met a number of officials to "discuss chances to increase cooperation in fields of economy and trade".

The British Ambassador to the Kingdom of Bahrain Simon Martin welcomed on the assessment of Mahmoud Cherif Bassiouni regarding the implementation of the BICI recommendations.