On 31 July 2016, just four weeks after his initial arrest by forces of the Ministry of Interior, Hassan Al Hayeki, a 35-year-old Bahraini citizen, died from the injuries he sustained from his prolonged subjection to torture at the hands of interrogators of the Criminal Investigation Directorate (CID) in Manama. On 11 August 2016, Alkarama raised his case to the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (SR SUMEX).

During its May 2016 session, the Sub-Committee on Accreditation (SCA) ) of the Global Alliance of National Institutions for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights (GANHRI) granted Bahrain's National Institution for Human Rights' (NIHR) the B status. In January 2016, Alkarama had sent a report on Bahrain's NIHR to the SCA, calling for the attribution of the B status to the NIHR to indicate its non-compliance with the Paris Principles Principles, the international standards established to ensure the NHRIs' independence and effective promotion and protection of human rights.

Alkarama expresses its deep concern over the recent developments and violations of human rights in Bahrain. In the past month alone, the authorities once again arrested prominent activist Nabeel Rajab, suspended Bahrain's main opposition party Al Wefaq and overturned the acquittal of its Secretary General Sheikh Ali Salman.

On April 9, 2016 the Hamad Town Police Station summoned 15 year old Bassel Abbas Ali Hassan Jayed for interrogation which lasted over five hours and during which he was subjected to electroshocks, beaten, kicked and slapped on the face and the head and forced to stand up in stress positions. Bassel was released on the morning of April 10 only to be called back a couple of hours later to undergo interrogation at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations. There again, he was subjected to the same methods of torture and forced to sign confessions stating that on 14 February 2016 he had taken part in an illegal gathering and had been in possession of a Molotov cocktail.