In an attempt to strain the Gulf-Lebanese atmosphere, the Bahraini authorities protested against a press conference held by Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society in Beirut on human rights in Bahrain.

The Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society said that it documented 36 cases of human rights violations against citizens in the first week of 2022.

It has been 7 years since the arrest of Al-Wefaq Secretary-General Sheikh Ali Salman. The whole country continues to suffer and remember his nationalist stances and great sacrifices. You cannot forget the name of the most prominent political leader who adopted peace, change, reform, and hardwork.

Devin Kenney, GCC Researcher at Amnesty International, demanded the release of Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society Secretary-General Sheikh Ali Salman.

The Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society delivered a letter to the United Nations Secretary-General, Mr. Antonio Guterres, indicating that the people of Bahrain are deprived of their most basic rights stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The conference held by Al-Wefaq to launch a human rights report in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, is not the first Bahraini opposition activity, and will not be its last, of course. However, we can say that this conference included no provocation to the regime in Bahrain that would evoke all this alerting.

Human rights activist Yousif Rabei stressed that "We don't have any problem with the Lebanese state. We respect Lebanon and its peculiarity as being a minaret for freedom of expression."

Following the Lebanese Interior Minister directives to deport Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society members outside Lebanon, the Lebanese National Human Rights Institution called on the government to respect the principle of non-refoulement.

The Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society said that the government approach to establish 5 civilian, industrial and tourist cities in the areas of Fasht Al-Jarm, Fasht Al-Azm, Suhaila Island, the Gulf of Bahrain and Hawar Islands is an environmental setback that has implications on fish reserves and destroys a large number of Bahrain's fisheries.

The Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society called on the Bahraini government to respond promptly to a request by three UN experts to visit Bahrain to look closely at the human rights situation and make recommendations.

Bahrain's opposition Al-Wefaq Society called on the participants in the Manama Dialogue to urge the Bahraini regime to put an end to the political repression, marginalization, tyranny, and rejection of internal dialogue.

Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society expressed concern over situation of forgotten political prisoners in Al-Qareen Military Prison, especially after reported information that political prisoner Fadel Al-Sayed Abbas Radi has started a hunger strike in protest against violating his right to receive adequate treatment.

Sheikh Hussein Al-Daihi, deputy Secretary-General of the Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, confirmed to the British BBC Channel the Bahraini peoples' condemnation of the Israeli Foreign Minister's visit to Bahrain.

The Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society announced its absolute rejection of the Israeli Foreign Minister's visit to Bahrain's capital, Manama.

The Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society said that the demands of people of Bahrain are represented in political transition to a real democratic state based on the people's will with them being the source of all authorities and the establishment of a state of institutions and law.

Al-Wefaq stressed that the political right is the main demand of the people of Bahrain, noting that the people have taken to the streets in the past years and are still protesting despite the prohibition and restrictions on freedom of expression and assembly for the sake of political demands.

Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society said that the crisis Bahrain witnessed in 2011 after the eruption of the popular movement and similar experiences that have taken place previously had a specific aim which is reaching a major political project by building a just and democratic country where people are the source of all powers.

The Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society called on Bahrainis to stop protests and sit-ins all over the country due to the outbreak of dangerous Coronavirus in Bahrain and increase in number of cases and casualties.

The National Islamic Al-Wefaq Society called on the Bahraini authorities to end the normalization agreements with the Israeli occupation entity, and work towards immediately "expelling representative of the occupying Zionist mission from Bahrain."

The Deputy Secretary-General of Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, Sheikh Hussein Al-Daihi, mourned martyr Abbas Malallah, saying: "How difficult it is to mourn a martyr who did not get to know the features of his children's faces before his martyrdom."