After Bahraini authorities executed 3 Bahraini political prisoners, British Foreign Secretary merely reiterated UK’s opposing stance towards the death penalty without official condemnation.

United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extra-Judicial Executions described Bahraini regime’s execution of three political detainees Abbas Al-Samee’, Ali Al-Singace and Sami Mushaima’ as extrajudicial killings.

Bahraini authorities executed three Bahraini dissidents over alleged role in killing of Emirati officer and two other policemen in political trial that based its convictions on confessions extracted under torture.

Bahrain on Sunday executed three men found guilty of killing three policemen, in a move likely to further raise tensions between the country's Shiite majority and its Sunni rulers.

Bahraini authorities put to death three men found guilty of a deadly attack on police on Sunday, the kingdom's first executions since an Arab Spring-inspired uprising rocked the country in 2011.

British daily The Guardian said in a report published Friday (January 13, 2017), that, "The UK government is facing fresh questions about Britain's aid strategy after it emerged that a controversial multi-million pound program of support for Bahrain's security and justice system is being bolstered this year, even as the Gulf state reverses reforms to a key intelligence agency accused of torture."

An eyewitness said that detainee Sayed Alawi Sayed Hussein al-Moussawi is being transferred via a wheelchair due to severe torture.

Activists on social media said that the Emirati authorities arrested on (January 8, 2017) citizen Ahmad Al-Ojaimi from Karana while transiting through Dubai International Airport.

British "Reprieve" denounced on its website the three death sentences against three Bahraini men Abbas al-Samea, Sami Mushaima, and Ali al-Singace.

The second High Criminal Court of Appeals acquitted 5 policemen of torturing a convict in Jaw prison.

The American Freedom House organization concerned in freedom issues demanded Bahrain to cancel the decision that restores judicial competence to the National Security Agency that is involved in torture.

Family of kidnapped and forcibly disappeared Sayed Alawi said that the authorities are still concealing him since 66 days.

The Bahraini Appeal Court upheld a death penalty verdict against a citizen, and a life imprisonment sentence against 14 others accused of killing a Jordanian officer in clashes in the town of Dumistan, wester of the capital Manama.

The Supreme Court of Appeal found innocent a police officer and five policemen, in the case of torturing a defendant, after his story contradicted before the prosecution, court, and special investigation unit, with that of his brother, who was the second witness.

It took me seven hours to read all the chapters of the novel “Jaw”. Indeed, I re-lived the agony of this story, from beginning to end.

The family of detainee, Sayed Alawi al-Moussawi, said (Wednesday December 14, 2016) that it received a short phone call from him, adding that the call was interrupted when they asked him about the charges behind his interrogation.

Family of kidnapped Sayed Alawi Sayed Hussein said that the authorities’ continuation to hide information about his arrest cause and the charges brought from his family and lawyer confirms fears of torture.

New whereabouts appeared in the case of the forcibly disappeared citizen Sayed Alawi Al-Mosawi. Two eyewitnesses who saw him in the Criminal Investigation Department and Jaw Prison said that he is living in harsh conditions. An eyewitness who was held next to Alawi’s room, stated that he heard him screaming “you killed me”. Alawi was addressing his torturers.

No one knows anything about Bahraini citizen Sayed Alawi Sayed Hussein since he disappeared from his workplace on October 24, 2016. All his family's’ attempts to get information about him were made in vain.

The Special Investigation Unit (SIU) affiliated to the Public Prosecution said that the unit investigated 23 complaints of allegations of torture and mistreatment in November.