The Human Rights Council Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has called on the Bahraini government to immediately and unconditionally release detained human rights defender Naji Fateel, and to conduct an impartial investigation to identify and hold perpetrators accountable.

A UN expert called on Bahrain to immediately release three human rights defenders suffering long term detention as a result of their legitimate promotion and protection of human rights in the country.

Sources from activists reported that human rights defender suffered a health setback on Tuesday night.

UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights defenders Michel Forst expressed via his Twitter account his growing concerns over Haji and Fateel.

The British Morning Star newspaper stated that tWO British parliamentarians have written to Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt demanding his "urgent intervention" to help political prisoners on hunger strike in Bahrain.

British MP Lord Paul Scriven raised a question on January 15 to the UK government on the measures it intends to take with the government of Bahrain to ensure that Bahraini political prisoners Ali Haji and Naji Fateel have immediate access to medical care.

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint partnership of FIDH and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), expressed their deep concern over the physical and psychological integrity of Mr. Naji Fateel.

Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei said on Twitter that Bahraini prisoners Naji Fateel and Ali Haji were released from solitary confinement, after they were punished following a video recording widely circulated, showing their sufferings in prison and denial of treatment.

Human rights activist Sayed Ahmed Al-Wedaei said that detainees Naji Fateel and Ali Hajji were transferred to solitary confinement after publishing audio recording in which they talked about the torture they are subjected to, impunity policy as well as negligence of their right to treatment by Jaw Prison administration.

Human rights defender Naji Fateel, who is sentenced to 15 years in jail, talked through a leaked recording about his sufferings in the notorious Jaw Central prison. He said that he lost hearing in his right ear after he was subjected to torture and brutal beatings.

Activist Ibtisam Al-Saegh said that imprisoned human rights defender Naji Fateel attended his daughter’s (Ghadir) wedding on Monday (July 2, 2018) in the family court with his hands cuffed.

Imprisoned human rights activist Naji Fateel celebrated the wedding of his daughter, Alyaa, as he was transferred to the Sharia courts to attend the event.