Brazil demanded the government of Bahrain to adopt measures to combat intolerance, discrimination and incitement of violence on the basis of religion and belief.
In its intervention on Monday (May 1, 2017) during the 27th UPR session in Geneva on Bahrain’s human rights record, Brazil reiterated the importance of protecting human rights defenders in Bahrain, and called on the government to guarantee “countering terrorism in accordance with Bahrain’s international commitments.”
For its part, Chile expressed its deep concern over complaints of torture in the criminal investigations building and detentions centers in Bahrain, which reportedly take place during investigations.
Canada also demanded the government of Bahrain to halt its policy of dissolving opposition political parties, and urged it to allow peaceful protests and abolish penalties on assembly.
Bulgaria further said that Bahrain registered a decline in its human rights record after its execution of death penalties early this year.
Botswana expressed deep concern over the persecution of Shiites and the repression of Human Rights activists in Bahrain.
Belgium demanded the government of Bahrain to stop arbitrary citizenship revocations against citizens, and demanding it fully implements the recommendations of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI) – Bassiouni report.
Australia expressed grave concern from Bahrain’s execution of death penalties, demanding it to revoke this penalty, and implement the recommendations of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI) – Bassiouni report.
Austria demanded Bahrain to immediately halt death penalties and allow the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture to visit the country.
Angola and Argentina, for their part, recommended Bahrain to immediately cancel all death penalties against citizens.
Switzerland regretted that Bahrain has not implemented all recommendations of the BICI report and criticized what it called reprisal measures against Human Rights activists and banning their travel to Geneva.
Source: Bahrain Mirror
