The European Parliament votes today on a resolution on the human rights situation in the Kingdom of Bahrain, in particular the cases of death row inmates and human rights defenders.

Bahrain police beat children arrested in protest-related cases in February 2021 and threatened them with rape and electric shocks, the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) and Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday (March 10, 2021).

Hundreds of protestors took part in protests in different villages in Bahrain, demanding to lift the house arrest on the spiritual leader of Shia majority Sheikh Isa Qassim and release detainees and condemning children arrest.

The Bahraini authorities released on Tuesday (October 10, 2017) night 4 children whose ages range between 12 and 13 years, after a week on their arrest over political reasons.