Human Rights Watch (HRW) expressed extreme concern regarding the large-scale citizenship revocations in Bahrain, and the continuous prosecution of Shiite clerics and rights activists.

Bahraini authorities are apparently targeting the family members of prominent Bahraini activist in retribution for his human rights work, said Human Rights Watch.

The family of Bahraini detainee Fadel Sayed Abbas said it received a call from him today after 152 of his enforced disappearance, and 87 days after the last phone call with him.

A number of human rights groups urged permanent representatives of member and observer states of UN Human Rights Council to call for improvements in human rights situation in Bahrain at 34th HRC session.

Human Rights Watch criticized Bahraini government’s approach to adopt a law enabling military courts to try civilians, considering it a violation of international fair trial standards.

The trial of the prominent Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab is scheduled to resume on February 21, 2017, Human Rights Watch said. He faces a total of 18 years in prison based on two sets of speech-related charges that clearly violate his right to free expression. His eight months in pretrial custody appeared to amount to arbitrary detention.

Bahrain has restored arrest and investigatory powers to an intelligence agency that conducted "terrorizing" house raids and systematically tortured detainees in 2011, Human Rights Watch said today.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Friday (January 27, 2017), that Kuwait carried out seven executions by hanging on January 25, 2017, the first time the Gulf state carried out the death penalty in four years.

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said Saudi Arabia had arrested two rights activists in the first ten days of this year and accused Riyadh of a crackdown on dissent, Reuters reported.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in its 2017 World Report that “Bahrain stepped up its repression of activists and government critics during 2016”.

Human Rights Watch said that the Bahraini authorities held a telecommunications engineer incommunicado for five weeks without access to a lawyer or his family. The authorities failed to provide accurate information on the whereabouts of the engineer, Sayed Alawi, from his arrest on October 24, 2016, until November 27.

The Middle East researcher at Human Rights Watch, Nicholas McGeehan, said that UK Prime Minister fired back at critics of cosy ties to Bahrain.

Bahraini authorities have put a prominent human rights lawyer on trial for charges that include insulting state institutions, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday, in a further crackdown on dissent.

Human Rights Watch said in a letter addressed to Barack Obama on Tuesday (November 29, 2016) that “The United States should immediately halt arms sales to Saudi Arabia following numerous unlawful coalition attacks in Yemen.”

Human Rights Watch strongly criticized the British government for not publicly calling for charges raised against prominent opposition figure Ebrahim Sharif to be dropped.

The King of Bahrain Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa described his country’s relations with Britain, as “deep-rooted and solid” and built “on mutual interests” during his meeting with UK Prince Charles in Bahrain.

The British Independent newspaper said that “Saudi Arabia has appointed a Bahraini national accused of overseeing torture and unfairly sentencing Arab Spring protesters to lengthy jail terms to investigate human rights violations caused by coalition bombing in Yemen.”

A Saudi Arabian activist remains in prison despite completing his eight-year sentence for protesting the war in Gaza, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday.

Human Rights Watch on Tuesday slammed a "well-funded" clampdown on Gulf Arab rights activists and urged the six monarchies to implement "much-needed reforms" instead of jailing peaceful critics.

Human Rights Watch condemned crack down on the dissidents in the Gulf States, particularly through surveilling their activism on the Internet and called on the government of these states to resort to making reforms instead of imprisoning the peaceful dissidents.