The NCF suggested in a written statement it submitted in the framework of the 49 session of the UNHRC a number of reforms to further improve respect for human rights in Bahrain in a number of issues of concern to them, namely the need for free elections, freedom of expression, women's rights and citizenship revocation.

Human Rights Watch said in its report for the 41st of the UN Universal Periodic Review on human rights situation in Bahrain that Bahrain has failed to live up to the recommendations that it supported and pledges it made in the past three cycles of the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review.

UN experts have raised concerns over the "deteriorating" health of the Bahraini academic, Dr. Abduljalil Al-Singace, in prison.

The situation of Bahraini prisoner of conscience Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja has dramatically worsened since the prison administration imposed a series of punitive measures against him, including denying him contact with his family last week, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement expressing grave concern.

A Bahraini-American rights group has called on Bahrain to release political prisoners and allow independent monitors to observe the country's upcoming parliamentary elections in order to avoid a repeat of what it called a "sham" vote in 2018.

President Joe Biden has signed into law a legislation that calls for an accounting by the US State Department of its efforts to free political prisoners in Bahrain.

Amnesty International's annual report, released on Tuesday (March 29), revealed in its special chapter on Bahrain that the Manama government has continued to commit serious human rights violations, including torture and other ill-treatment, and to suppress of freedom of expression and assembly.

The Globes newspaper, quoting Israeli sources, reported that Morocco, the UAE and Bahrain all asked Israel for defensive weapons systems, noting that Tel Aviv is studying these requests.

The Bahrain Press Association (BPA) said in a report that dissidents, civil society activists in Bahrain and those prevented by the political isolation law from engaging in civil or political activity have become unable to express their stances and comment on internal affairs, except through equivocal words and indirectly.

The Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society condemned the participation of Bahraini Foreign Minister, Abdullatif Al-Zayani, at the Negev summit held on Monday, March 28, 2022 in an occupation settlement, with the participation of foreign ministers of the normalizing countries with the Israeli foreign minister.

Israel and Bahrain, on Monday, signed a framework agreement for cooperation on the sidelines of the Negev summit held today.

The six-party summit, which was attended by four Arab foreign ministers, as well as the Foreign Ministers of the Israeli entity and the United States of America, concluded on Monday at the Sde Boker agricultural settlement in the occupied Negev, shortly after its launch, without issuing any joint statement.

Israel will soon appoint a military attache to the US Navy's Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, according to an Israeli diplomat on Monday.

Al-Wefaq Deputy Secretary-General, Sheikh Hussein Al-Daihi, commented on the regional summit in which Bahrain is to take part in and to be held in the Israeli entity next week.

Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim issued a statement concerning the ongoing normalization process, saying that "normalization with the Israeli enemy works towards destroying the nation's interests, pride and unity, but the Islamic mentality of the nation and its conscience are the most targeted."

On June 29, 2008, Bahrain's cabinet approved a loan agreement between the Government of Bahrain and Doha.

The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale to Bahrain of M270 Multiple Launch Rocket Systems Upgrade and related equipment for an estimated cost of $176 million, the Pentagon said on Thursday.

The wife of political prisoner, Ali Hasan Hammad, said that her husband has launched a hunger strike after the Jaw Prison administration did not respond to his request for appropriate treatment for the severe pain in his back. She expressed fear that her husband would get paralyzed if he doesn't receive medical care.

A Bahraini court sentenced on Thursday (March 17, 2022) Shiite cleric Sheikh Mohammed Al-Madi to one year in prison over offending the Umayyad ruler Muawiya bin Abi Sufyan.

Ali Mushaima, son of detained leader Hasan Mushaima, revealed that his father has been in solitary confinement at the Kanoo Health Center for 8 months under the cover of "medical follow-ups," noting that he is being neglected and deprived of basic rights, some of which he was receiving in Jaw Central Prison.