In the 2012 UPR Stakeholder Report for Bahrain, several human rights organisations noted the strong evidence that human rights defenders and political dissidents in detention had been severely tortured and ill-treated. Moreover, the stakeholders highlighted that dozens of people had been sentenced after being prohibited from adequate access to lawyers and having been forced to sign confessions extracted under torture. Since 2012, the Bahraini government established three bodies for investigation of torture as recommended by the BICI report. However, they have failed to implement the recommendations of the international community regarding torture, and there have been numerous testimonies of detainees and prisoners being severely tortured and mistreated. click her |