The human rights climate in Bahrain remains to be one characterized by oppression and crackdown against rights claims and defenders. The outgoing High Commissioner for Human Rights Mr. Zeid in his last address of the Human Rights Council stressed that Bahrain has continued its refusal to engage and cooperate with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the HRC, and the mandates of the Special Procedures. He also noted that “Bahrain was among the 40 states who had not allowed any visits by a Special Rapporteur over the past five years, and that it also had more than five pending visits from the Special Procedures.” Ongoing suppression of civil society and human rights defenders, as well as its use of legislation to curtail fundamental human rights are met with little to nothing accountability measures by the relevant international community.

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