During the "Rights Under Restrictions" conference, Bahraini academic Dr. Masoud Jahromi recounted his experience as a Bahraini citizen who has been stripped of his nationality and forced to leave the country.

The Director of the World Coalition against the Death Penalty-France (WCADP), O'Reilly Plessis, said that "although there hasn't been many executions in the past few years, we expect the number of people to grow in the coming years."

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 representative of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Nada Darwazeh, highlighted that what raises the most concern are the decisions issued deporting Bahraini citizens after stripping them of their political and civil rights.

The Bahrain Forum for Human Rights (BFHR) opened its fifth international conference on Tuesday (April 29, 2016), entitled "Bahrain: Rights Under Restrictions-Freedom of Expression Peaceful Assembly and Right of Citizenship" at the Coral Beach Hotel in the Lebanese Capital, Beirut.