Bahrain is among the countries where Britain's College of Policing offers training in leadership, forensics and intelligence.

The British Minister for Middle East and North Africa welcomed release of HR activist Zainab Al-Khawaja.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday Tehran had no...

The Independent: "UK arms sales to governments listed as having dubious human rights records increased to £3 billion."

UK spokesperson said Hammond to start 3-day tour to GCC states to discuss fighting ISIS and Yemen crisis.

Although Bahrain commonly uses torture, the UK continues to train troops from the island kingdom.

The British daily, The Times, said on its website that Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa filed a legal complaint against the newspaper over an article, criticizing the decision to sit Queen Elizabeth II next to King Hamad at her 90th birthday celebrations.

The British police arrested two Bahraini human rights activists who were attempting to protest at a horse racing track against the participation of a Bahraini prince accused of torturing politicians.

The British Guardian newspaper stated that "prosecutors are to appeal against a judge's decision to dismiss charges against protesters who said they took direct action against an arms fair to stop crimes being committed with the weapons on sale."

In response to questions sent on the FCO Twitter account, Minister of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Baroness Anelay said that the "UK encourages Bahrain Government to deliver international and domestic human rights commitments including on treatment of detainees."

The British paper, The Independent said "that British MPs are to investigate allegations of illegal weapons sales at British weapons fairs after a judge ruled there was "credible" evidence of wrongdoing at the biggest event in the arms trade's calendar "DSEI arms fair".

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 President of the Bahrain Center for Human rights and prominent human rights defender, Nabeel Rajab, said that Bahrain is expected to be listed as a "Priority country" in Britain's upcoming report "due to increasing human rights activism"

Bahrain Mirror (Exclusive): The British national newspaper, The Independent, reported that despite years of crackdowns, torture and oppression in Bahrain, the UK has drawn even closer to the Gulf state.

The UK-based Guardian newspaper stated that the “British taxpayers are paying millions to fund a police watchdog in Bahrain that has failed to investigate torture claims in the case of a man who has been sentenced to death.”

The visit of two british experts to Bahrain’s Supreme Judicial Council, aims at benefiting from British expertise in the judicial field on many different levels.

Bahrain Mirror: British Court issued a final verdict on Thursday (December 17, 2015) without appeal, sentencing Bahraini opposition activist Abdulraof Al-Shayeb to 5 years in prison over charges of “possession of memory containing material that can be used for terrorist purposes.”

Bahrain Mirror (Exclusive): Very excessive acts of torture were practiced in one of the latest cases of detainees in Bahrain. That's what the detainees' parents said according to their sons' accounts, revealing the truth about the information Britain presented to the UN on Bahrain's so-called "success in reforming its security bodies."

Bahrain Mirror: Human Rights Watch's Middle East researcher Nicholas McGeehan said: |Consider Bahrain, where just weeks ago, the UK organized briefings by senior British officials for foreign diplomats on the supposed success of Bahrain’s efforts to reform its security services.”

Bahrain Mirror: The British Security Minister John Hayes expressed his country's readiness to continue constructive cooperation with the Kingdom of Bahrain in "areas of training and fighting terrorism".