Antoine Madelin of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) said that investigations revealed that the authorities in Bahrain still deprive the majority of Bahrainis of their rights and use government bodies to crush Bahrainis instead of protecting them, which spreads fear and panic among citizens.

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and other international and Bahraini nongovernmental organizations strongly condemned the repeated use of the death penalty by Bahraini authorities and called on the government to commute the death and life sentences.