The United Nations' Human Rights Council (HRC) adopted on Friday (May 5, 2017) recommendations to Bahrain on its human rights record, at the end of the 27th session of the Universal Period Review (UPR) on Bahrain in Geneva.

Bahrain’s Islamic National Society Al-Wefaq demanded the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) to move from its “verbal condemnation” of Bahrain to introduce binding measured to stop the violations in the country.

It’s been 5 years since the United Nations issued 176 recommendations to the Government of Bahrain to reform the deteriorating human rights status. Bahrain has been a country full of torture, killing, labor dismissals and sectarian persecution.

Bahraini human rights organizations thanked the countries that presented fundamental recommendations to “stop the continuous violations and to achieve radical human rights reform in Bahrain.”

Austria demanded Bahrain to immediately halt death penalties and allow the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture to visit the country.

The UK criticized Bahrain adopting policies of death penalties and citizenship revocations.

Angola and Argentina recommended Bahrain to immediately cancel all death penalties against citizens.

Switzerland regretted that Bahrain has not implemented all recommendations of the BICI report and criticized what it called reprisal measures against Human Rights activists and banning their travel to Geneva.

Sweden demanded Bahrain to halt dissolution of opposing political societies and lift restrictions on freedom of association and assembly, especially among Shiite citizens.

The Kingdom of Spain demanded Bahrain to develop a national machinery to combat torture and completely cancel death penalty.

Slovenia demanded Bahrain to set a timetable to implement HRC recommendations.

Montenegro welcomed the invitation extended to UN High Commissioner to visit Bahrain, stating that the visit should include Shiite villages. Meanwhile, South Korea demanded the Bahraini Government to proceed in the dialogue to face challenges and recommended it to accept the visit of UN Special Rapporteurs to the country.

Portugal called on the Bahraini government to abolish all the death penalties issued against citizens and lift travel bans imposed on human rights activists.

The United States severely slammed the government of Bahrain and its recent measures against political parties and Shiite clerics.

Qatar praised what it called “Wise Policies” of the government of Bahrain regarding dealing with human rights issues.

Mexico presented number of recommendations to the government of Bahrain, including canceling citizenship revocation laws.

Norway recommended the government of Bahrain to cancel all death penalties, especially those issued based on 2011 events.

New Zealand demanded Bahrain to respect rights of all groups participating in political activism.

Netherlands recommended Bahraini government to cancel the latest constitution amendment that allows military courts to try civilians.

The government of Bahrain delivered a speech in front of the human rights council and slammed the UN High Commissioner and human rights organizations.