An event held on March 1, 2017, entitled, "Bahrain 6 years on - where to go from here?" focused on what next steps could be taken in order to pressure Bahraini authorities to live up to their human rights commitments.

The Bahraini Government said in its third National Universal Periodic Review of Human Rights Report to be discussed in May 2017 that it is facing challenges represented in attempts by some to exploit human rights issues, unfairly, as a front to achieve their narrow political aims.

For the people of Bahrain, a key US ally, the new US president’s dissimilar direction in foreign policy from his predecessor Obama may cause for alarm or hope.

Amnesty International said in its 2016 annual report about the human rights situation in Bahrain that the authorities tightened restrictions on the rights to freedom of expression and association and continued to curtail the right to peaceful assembly. They detained and charged several human rights defenders and banned others from travelling abroad, dissolved the main opposition group and stripped more than 80 people of their Bahraini citizenship, forcibly expelling four.

The United Nations deputy spokesman Farhan Haq reiterated "U.N. concerns about restrictions on fundamental freedoms, including restrictions on fundamental freedoms including rights to peaceful assembly, freedom of association and freedom of expression in Bahrain."

Authorities in Bahrain must refrain from using excessive force against protesters, Amnesty International urged as mass protests are under way on 14 February, to mark the sixth anniversary of the 2011 uprising.

The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office issued an update to its report on the Bahrain situation, which included the period between July and December 2016.

British daily The Independent said that Bahrain was among 8 despotic regimes that funded trips of British MPs last year, according to an analysis of Parliament’s register of interest.

The American the Washington Times newspaper said “the Trump administration is poised to move quickly to approve major weapons packages for Saudi Arabia and Bahrain that President Obama blocked during his final months in office over human rights concerns in both nations, U.S. officials and congressional sources say.”

Over 20 human rights figures and organizations sent letter to British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs urging him to call on Bahrain to release Nabeel Rajab.

American Defense News website reported that chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee said Monday he expects the Trump White House to approve F-16 fighter jet sales to Bahrain that were blocked by the Obama administration over human rights concerns.

Member of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI), British Professor, Sir Nigel Simon Rodley, passed away Wednesday (January 25, 2017).

Human Rights Watch said that two Bahrainis, Mohammad Ramadan and Hussein Mousa, appear to be at imminent risk of execution despite the authorities’ failure to properly investigate their allegations of torture.

President of the Supreme Judicial Council and President of the Court of Cassation, Salim Al-Kuwari, received the members of the Council of Commissioners at the National Institutional for Human Rights (NIHR), led by Abdulaziz Hassan Abul, to submit the NIHR’s annual reports for 2015 and 2016.

Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Campaigns in Beirut, Samah Hadid said that the execution of 3 Bahraini political detainees is a “regressive step” for Bahrain.

Six human rights organizations issued an urgent appeal to the UN Secretary-General António Guterres urging him to immediately interfere to stop the execution of death sentences issued against 3 detainees accused of killing an Emirati officer while dispersing a protests in Manama in 2014.

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."

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) demanded that detainee Elias Al-Mullah (25 years old), who suffers from stage 3 cancer, receives proper medical treatment, and that his family is given his recent up-to-date medical reports on his condition.

A Bahraini court decided on Wednesday (December 28, 2016) to release the prominent human rights activist Nabeel Rajab, however, the Public Prosecution refrained from executing the court’s decision.

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Tobias Ellwood said that his country continues to monitor the case of the Bahraini detained opposition leader, Sheikh Ali Salman, closely.