Bahraini government's representative in Geneva, Deputy Foreign Minister Abdullah Al-Dosari, said that his country will carefully study all the recommendations contained in the report, which amounted to 175 recommendations.

Bahraini activist and executive director of (ADHRB) Husain Abdulla said that the recommendations presented to Bahrain, during the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on Bahrain’s human rights record in Geneva on Monday (May 1, 2017), are the fruits of the Bahraini organizations efforts and that of the Bahraini activists, inside and outside Bahrain, through their continuous meetings with the diplomatic delegations and foreign ministries of the states to reflect the real incidents taking place in Bahrain.

Head of the Bahraini Delegation before the Committee against Torture (CAT) in Geneva, Deputy Foreign Minister Abdullah Al-Dossari, accused the reports of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) of lacking credibility, seeking politicization of the rights work, and giving it a sectarian trait.