Al-Wefaq Deputy Secretary General, Sheikh Hussein Al-Daihi, said that the international community has legal and moral obligations to provide protection for peaceful protesters and civil community in Bahrain.

Bahrain took a rare public reprimand at its United Nations’ Universal Periodic Review, said Brian Dooley, as the Bahraini government’s delegation had to sit and listen as country after country listed concerns about the country’s failure to introduce real reform despite promises made at its last UPR in 2012.

It isn’t much good preaching about human rights and then embracing a policy conveying the message that if a country has “strong military ties” with the United States then it is of no consequence if it persists in “torture and abuse…”

Denmark said that the government of Bahrain has not prosecuted those involved in human rights violations, despite the establishment of accountability institutions and others involved in human rights.

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

The Khiam Rehabilitation Center for Victims of Torture (KRC) said that “the Bahraini government continues its arbitrary measures against human rights defenders right before the period review of the official national report before the Human Rights Council on May 1.”

​Human Rights Watch says prominent Bahraini human rights activist, Nabeel Rajab, is suffering from health problems that have developed or deteriorated during more than 10 months​ ​of​ ​arbitrary​ ​detention.

Human rights groups signed joint letter calling on the King of Bahrain to release and drop the charges against photojournalist Sayed Ahmed Salman al-Mousawi.

Human rights groups sent an open letter to the UN Committee Against Torture (CAT), urging to reiterate Bahrain’s obligations under the Convention Against Torture. Bahraini authorities will appear before CAT in Geneva on Friday.

Bahraini security forces have intensified their measures, tightening the ongoing siege imposed on the village of Diraz since June 2016.

Nakhleh stressed that US policy clearly shows the growing influence of Bahrain’s lobbyists in Washington and the cozy relationships that Tillerson has forged with Bahrain, the UAE and other GCC, stressing that these Sunni countries are ruled by tribal potentates who violate their citizens’ basic human rights blatantly, viciously, and systematically.

In modern Bahrain, the truth behind violent deaths is hard to establish, highlights Marc Owen Jones in his article published on The Conversation website. “And the fact that they are largely ignored by the international media means you may well be reading about the following events for the first time,” he says.

Amnesty International strongly criticized US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson who will reportedly lift human rights conditions on an arms sale to Bahrain, despite that country’s record of oppression against dissidents.

University of Melbourne hosted on Friday a conference entitled, “Human Rights Abuses in the Gulf States,” which discussed the human rights situation in the Gulf States, with a focus on Bahrain and Yemen.

Now family members of those who criticize the Bahrain government are being threatened, targeted, summoned and intimidated, said Human Rights First’s Brian Dooley.

Amnesty International said that it is alarmed by the deteriorating human rights situation in Bahrain, in its oral statement to the 34th session of the UN Human Rights Council.

If there is an Exhibit A for how the ascent of the Trump administration is leading to the deterioration of human rights in other countries, it is Bahrain, said the Washington Post in an editorial.

My challenge is clear to the authorities. The opposition wants dialogue and has consistently said this on a regular basis for the past six years.

France, Czech Republic, Ireland, and Denmark criticized Bahrain's human rights record, and called on Manama to abolish all restrictions imposed on civil society associations.

A statement issued by five Bahraini human rights organizations stressed the failure of the National Institution of Human Rights (NIHR) in reflecting the real conditions in the country, which confirms that the institution does not follow Paris Principles that Bahrain said the institution was formed in accordance with.