After the two ministers sat with the king, it was decided that Hamad bin Jassim would make a phone call, on behalf of the Gulf Cooperation Council states, to the Secretary-General of the Al-Wefaq Society, Sheikh Ali Salman, and this indeed took place. It was a public and completely open call, and made with the permission of the Manama authorities. This was later confirmed by Hamad bin Jassim during a television interview.

Sheikh Ali Salman's story is similar to those of the early strugglers, when humans began to write stories of their "struggles" on cave walls and papyrus leaves, when the notion of "documentation", and the idea of "storytelling" and "novels" came to be and when humans began to tell stories of heroism.

Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society holds a virtual meeting on Wednesday entitled "Bahrain: Where to?" on the sixth anniversary of its Secretary-General Sheikh Ali Salman's arrest.

Now that the signing of the reconciliation between Qatar and the Gulf states is approaching, especially Saudi Arabia, the trial of the Bahraini opposition leader is one of the major issues that followed the decision made by these states to sever ties with Qatar and take several actions against it.

The International Court of Justice on Friday denied a request by the United Arab Emirates for special measures against Qatar to relieve a bitter two-year-old crisis.

The High Appeals Criminal Court set April 27 as a date to issue its ruling in the appeals of Waheed Al-Dossari and Hasan Al-Araibi in case of receiving money from a former Qatari MP Abdullah bin Khalid Al Thani to run for elections.

The US Department of State said that the verdict issued by the cassation court in Bahrain against the opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman "narrows the space for free expression and political activity" in the country.

Hezbollah strongly condemned the Bahraini Court of Cassation's sentence to life imprisonment against opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman and former deputies Sheikh Hasan Sultan and Ali Al-Aswad on charges of "communicating with the State of Qatar."

The Bahraini regime's courts issued a final life sentence against Bahrain's national opposition leader, Sheikh Ali Salman, and two former Al-Wefaq MPs today, Monday, January 28, 2019.

Bahrain's supreme court, whose verdicts are final, on Monday upheld a life term for Shiite opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman for spying for Gulf rival Qatar, a judicial source said.

Hundreds of citizens took part in angry protests rejecting the life sentence issued by the appeals court against opposition leader and Al-Wefaq secretary-general Sheikh Ali Salman. Protestors also condemned the government’s normalization attempts with Israel.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.