A total of 484 complaints and requests for assistance were submitted to the National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR) in 2017 versus 138 complaints and requests for assistance in 2016.

The National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR) issued on Wednesday (March 28, 2018) its 2017 annual report on human rights situations in the country.

The National Institution for Human Rights said that it contacted ��� competent parties in the Interior Ministry about what was circulated on different media outlets regarding the health condition of detainee Hajar Mansour (mother-in-law of human rights activist Ahmad Al-Wadaie), adding that �the condition of a Bahraini detainee Hajar Mansour is stable and normal�.

Maria Khoury, Chairperson of National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR), said that her father came to Bahrain in 1950. Khoury�s statements irritated a number of human rights activists who asked about the way her family was naturalized, noting that she chairs a senior government post that whitewashes Bahrain�s image and defends it in the international forums when it comes to human rights affairs.

The National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR) said that it visited the spiritual leader of Shia majority Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim at the hospital after his health deteriorated.

The National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR) said that it attended the public trial sessions of citizens before a military court.

The NIHR said that it established a committee to follow the government implementation of recommendations of the Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review Working Group for Bahrain, headed by the chairman of the institution and memberships of the vice president, chairman of the committee on civil and political rights, chairman of committee on economic, social and cultural rights and the Secretary-General.

The National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR) received a delegation from the US Congress on a visit to Bahrain, in the presence of NIHR's Vice President Abdullah Al-Durazi, Head of Economic, Societal and Cultural Rights Committee Maria Khoury and Acting Secretary-General Khalifa Al-Fahdel.

President of the National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR), Saeed Al-Faihani, received Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Bahrain, Simon Martin, in the presence of the Institution's Vice President Abdullah Al-Drazi and Khalifa Al Fadhel the Acting Secretary-General.

The National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR) expressed deep regret over Qatar's withdrawal of the citizenship of Talib bin Mohammed bin Lahoom bin Shuraim Al-Murrah, along with his 54-member family.

Days after Amnesty issued its report in which it confirmed that Bahrain oppresses its dissidents, a Bahraini governmental institution asserted that prisons are free from any form of systematic torture and ill-treatment.

President of National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR) Saeed Al-Faihani said that the 176 recommendations issued by the United Nations Human Rights Council during the universal periodic review on Bahrain�s human rights file are not binding and are not considered a condemnation to Bahrain.

President of National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR) Saeed Al-Faihani said that he returned from an abroad visit that he described as more than successful. Al-Faihani said that the visit aimed at explaining facts to the officials and European organizations regarding the measures taken by each of Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the Emirates and Egypt against Qatar, stressing that Qatar sought to attract international sympathy by trying to change the political and security case to a humanitarian and human rights one.

Saeed Mohammad al-Faihani said that the National Committee for Human Rights in Qatar is staging a misleading propaganda about "grave human rights violations caused by the gulf row."

The National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR)'s delegation led by NIHR's Chairman, held a meeting with Kate Gilmore, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, in Wilson palace in Geneva on the sideline of the 27th Session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR).

The National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR)'s delegation to the 27th Session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), led by NIHR's Chairman, Said bin Mohammed Al-Faihani, met the Chief of the Middle East and North Africa Section at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Mohammad Ali Al-Nsour.

The civilian court rejected a lawsuit submitted by the National Institution for Human Rights in which it demanded to consider the contract between the landlord and the tenant formal, after it paid one million BD to the tenant who leased it from the sublet.

A statement issued by five Bahraini human rights organizations stressed the failure of the National Institution of Human Rights (NIHR) in reflecting the real conditions in the country, which confirms that the institution does not follow Paris Principles that Bahrain said the institution was formed in accordance with.

The Shura Council unanimously approved in its session on Sunday (March 12, 2017) a decree law amending provisions of establishing the National Institution for Human Rights.

National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR)'s vice president Abdullah Al-Dirazi said that the institution will submit its report that is similar to the convention against torture to the competent commission at the end of March, and that the commission will discuss Bahrain�s periodic report at the end of April, indicating that the institution presented its report about Bahrain in the framework of the universal periodic review mechanism on September 20, 2016.