{"id":4795,"date":"2017-09-24T06:23:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T06:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/4795-bahrain-s-human-rights-situation-alarming-rights-groups\/"},"modified":"2017-09-24T06:23:11","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T06:23:11","slug":"bahrain-s-human-rights-situation-alarming-rights-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/4795-bahrain-s-human-rights-situation-alarming-rights-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain\u2019s Human Rights situation alarming: Rights groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking during Thursday\u2019s discussion about the outcomes of Bahrain\u2019s Universal Period Review (UPR), a total of ten rights groups, including Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International, highlighted the dramatic deterioration in the kingdom\u2019s human rights situation.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>Speaking during Thursday\u2019s discussion about the outcomes of Bahrain\u2019s Universal Period Review (UPR), a total of ten rights groups, including Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International, highlighted the dramatic deterioration in the kingdom\u2019s human rights situation.<\/h4>\n<h4>HRW\u2019s Laila Matar, called on Manama to \u201cimplement the most important recommendations\u201d that came out of Bahrain\u2019s last UPR session in May.\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cBahrain\u2019s glossy PR campaign around its UPR engagement cannot be allowed to cover up its complete disregard for the substantive recommendations made, nor the human rights crisis on the ground,\u201d Matar said at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>The UPR, which accesses the human rights record of UN member states, produced over 170 recommendations for Bahrain.\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>But according to former Bahraini MP and current chair of the SALAM for Democracy and Human Rights, Jawad Fairooz, Bahrain has been transformed into a \u201cpolice state\u201d and Manama has made no real effort to implement reforms.\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>For its part, Amnesty International pointed out that the regime\u2019s campaign of repression against dissenting voices has only intensified since June 2016.<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking during Thursday\u2019s discussion about the outcomes of Bahrain\u2019s Universal Period Review (UPR), a total of ten rights groups, including Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International, highlighted the dramatic deterioration in the kingdom\u2019s human rights situation. \u00a0 Speaking during Thursday\u2019s discussion about the outcomes of Bahrain\u2019s Universal Period Review (UPR), a total of ten &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[54,488,71,982],"class_list":["post-4795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islam","tag-bahrain","tag-group","tag-human-rights-watch","tag-situation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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