Five human rights organizations issued a report about torture in Bahrain in which they recounted the patterns of systematic torture practiced against political prisoners in Bahraini prisons and the activists summoned by the Intelligence to force them stop their activities.

The United Nations Committee against Torture published in May its concluding observations on Bahrain. Its report found that torture remains “widespread” in Bahrain, where a “climate of impunity” protects the perpetrators. CAT urgently called for the release of Nabeel Rajab, indicating that numerous human rights activists and journalists have been unlawfully deprived of their liberty and subjected to torture as a form of retribution for their work.

Bahrain’s National Security Apparatus (NSA) (the intelligence apparatus) summoned again (Monday June 26, 2017) Mohammad, the son of Sheikh Hassan Sultan, prominent al-Wefaq members and former al-Wefaq MP.

Sheikh Maytham Al-Salman called on all torture victims in Bahrain to file urgent complaints to the United Nations and disclose to the organization and public opinion all of what they were subjected to.

The National Security Apparatus (NSA) released early dawn Saturday (June24, 2017) Mohammad Sultan, son of Bahraini opposition figure, Sheikh Hassan Sultan.

No information has been given on Mohammed Hassan Sultan, son of senior Al-Wefaq official, since he was summoned to the National Security Agency in Muharraq.

: Among its efforts to recruit activists and their relatives to work for its sake, the National Security Apparatus summoned Mohammad Sultan, son of the former Al-Wefaq MP Sheikh Hassan Sultan.

For over a year, the detainees at the Dry Dock prison haven’t seen the sun light. This is no exaggeration; this is a real crime.

There has been an increase in the number of assaults on human rights activists in the Arab world after the so-called Arab Spring, ranging from attacks initiated by the ruling authorities, beyond torture and threats, to accusing them of treason and conspiracy abroad; an accusation punishable by death in some countries.

On 26 May 2017, human rights defender Ebtisam Al-Saegh was summoned by the National Security Agency (NSA) to Muharraq police station, in the North of the country, Front Line Defenders (FLD) stated.

Bahrain should investigate claims by a human rights activist who says she was tortured and sexually assaulted while in detention last week, Amnesty International said on Thursday.

Human rights activist Ibtisam Al-Saegh recounted to Amnesty International details about the torture she was subjected to at the National Security Agency (NSA) building last Friday (May 26, 2017).

Bahraini activist Ebtisam Al-Saegh told Amnesty International that she was subjected to torture at the National Security Apparatus building, after she was summoned for interrogation on Friday.

An eyewitness reported that the said detainee Sayed Alawi Al-Moussawi in the Public Prosecution building today Wednesday (May 31, 2017).

Six human rights organization said that some activists and bloggers were recently summoned to the National Security building, and were subject to torture and sexual assault to force them into suspending their human rights and media activism.

Amnesty International launched on Monday (May 15, 2017) an appeal to release detainee Nizar Al-Qari, indicating that he is being tortured while in detention.

British rights activists have called on the queen to protest against rising repression, torture and executions in Bahrain when she meets the Gulf state's king in the UK on Friday, according to Middle East Eye website.

The United Nations Committee against Torture on Friday called on Bahrain to release prominent activist Nabeel Rajab from more than nine months of solitary confinement and investigate widespread allegations of ill-treatment and torture of detainees.

A Bahraini court decided to adjourn the case of an organization known as "Al-Basta Group", comprising 18 suspects, to May 25, 2017, in order to assign a lawyer to a suspect and to plead for the attendees.

Deputy Chief of the SIU, Mohammad Khalid al-Hazza, said that the unit received 53 complaints that varied from torture, ill-treatment and use of excessive force by members of the public security forces.