The most prominent issues that dominated the scene in 2022 were revealed in August when information surfaced about a government plan to establish a "Jewish Quarter" in the capital, Manama, as part of the accelerating normalization agreements.

In 2018, the Bahraini government, along with other Gulf governments, began employing Pegasus software to track activists. Reports from specialized organizations led to legal actions against the company, involving applications such as WhatsApp and other entities.

Throughout the year 2022, Bahrain experienced a surge of Bahraini-Israeli normalization events and visits. During this time, the government aimed to make normalization with Israel an inevitable reality, even resorting to threats and pressuring employees to be present during Israeli delegations, as seen with doctors at Salmaniya Hospital.

HRW and BIRD condemned on Wednesday (December 6, 2023) the verdict issued by Bahrain's First Criminal Court in September 2023, against 13 defendants in "an unfair mass trial marred with due process violations and torture allegations." HWR and BIRD demanded to assess the defendants' torture allegations.

On June 13, 2022, Bahrain witnessed the most significant ministerial reshuffle in its history, led by Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad, who heads the government. This reshuffle marked the elimination of the wing associated with the late Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman, along with the removal of most ministers aligned with the Khawalids, notably Justice Minister Khalid bin Ali and Oil Minister Mohammed bin Khalifa, the son of the Field Marshal.

In 2022, Bahrain's government amassed financial surpluses with the rise in oil prices, yet failed to implement measures to address the inflation's impact on citizens' livelihoods in a country where the gap between the rich and the poor continues to widen.

The King extended an invitation to a coexistence forum with the aim of improving his image as a patron of interfaith dialogue. The objective was to use the Pope's visit to whitewash the king's record of sectarian persecution against the Shia majority, hoping that the visit would obscure his dark history in the realm of religious freedoms.

In November 2022, Bahrain witnessed new legislative elections, yet they were much like their predecessors. The ruling family selected who had the right to vote and who could run, excluding those they deemed undesirable from the familial electoral affair.

A hunter hunted a group of birds on a cold day, then slaughtered them one after the other. The tears of the hunter were pouring from his eyes due to the bitter cold, so two birds looked at him and his tears, and one of them said to the other, "Look at the hunter, he looks so sad as he slaughters us. He cries out of pity and mercy for us!"

In the Bahraini reflection on the year 2022 and the World Cup, the harvest of fields unveils a disappointing reality in terms of competition, production, and development. Across these arenas, Bahrain finds itself devoid of any semblance of competitiveness, productivity, or progress. Instead, we witness a desolate landscape in every aspect.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Bahrain Defense Force, Field Marshal Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, stressed that the Arab and Islamic nation is targeted in its homelands, peoples, territorial resources and in every field, even in its religion.

The Bahraini government poured hundreds of millions of dollars into a losing project, only this year, just because there is someone who wants to prove that he "understands corporate restructuring."

Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim issued a "patriotic Islamic appeal" to Bahrain's "loyal believing people," calling on them to expel "Zionist invaders and aggressors" from the country.

The UN committee on evaluating the performance of the National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR) in Bahrain postponed the decision on the institution’s classification to a full year.

The head of "Haq" opposition movement, Hasan Mushaima, suspended the hunger strike which he began on Friday, December 1, 2023, after pledges to "resolve outstanding issues" regarding his health and detention conditions.

Sayed Taher Al-Mousawi said "Although the events in Gaza were a priority for talking about our internal crisis, the scenes of Palestinian prisoners being released from the occupation prisons forced our consciences to evoke the issue of prisoners in Bahrain's prisons," describing it as a "national humanitarian issue."

Lawyers for a Bahraini political prisoner Ahmed Jaafar announced on Wednesday, November 29, 2023, suing the Interpol in France over the issuance of a "red notice" that led to the arrest of Jaafar in Serbia and deporting him to Bahrain in 2022.

Prisoner of conscience in Jaw Central Prison, Jassim Khalil Al-Saffar, confirmed that the contaminated drinking water crisis in the prison has worsened.

UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders Mary Lawlor said in a tweet on the "X" platform that "she wrote to the government of Bahrain about the deteriorating health condition and ill-treatment of human rights defenders Abduljalil Al-Singace, Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja and Naji Fateel."

ADHRB called on the Bahraini government to uphold its human rights obligations by immediately and unconditionally releasing prisoner of conscience Mohammad Al-Daqqaq and by investigating all allegations of his arbitrary detention, torture and ill-treatment.