On 22 September 2016, Alkarama submitted its report on Bahrain’s human rights situation to the Human Rights Council, in view of Bahrain’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) which will be held in May 2017. In its report, Alkarama underscored the most serious human rights violations which continue to persist in the country, such as the use of torture, the recourse to arbitrary detention and the violations of fair trial rights. Alkarama’s report also points out the lack of implementation of several recommendations accepted by Bahrain during its second UPR in 2012.

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.

In the early morning of 20 February 2016, about 12 members of the Intelligence Services of the Criminal Investigation Directorate in civilian clothes stormed the house of 17-year-old student Fadhel Abbas Ali Hassan Jayed. After searching his room, they arrested him and confiscated his phone. No warrant was shown and they did not provide any explanation for the arrest. Fadhel was then taken to the Criminal Investigation Directorate, where he was tortured with electric shocks, beaten, kicked and slapped on the face and head by masked men. Then he was forced to sign confessions stating that on 2 December 2015 and 14 February 2016, he participated in illegal gatherings and was in possession of Molotov cocktails.

On 26 January 2015, 21-year-old student Mohamed Faraj, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, was arrested from the courtroom after being sentenced by Bahrain's Fourth Criminal Court to seven years imprisonment for arson, illegal gathering and rioting. Mohamed was taken in his wheelchair to the Jaw prison, known for its "severe abuses" of prisoners, to serve his sentence. Concerned over his health, as he does not receive adequate medical treatment for his condition, Alkarama together with the Bahrain Forum for Human Rights sent on 12 February 2016 a communication to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health (SR Health), Dainius Pūras, requesting him to call upon the Bahraini authorities to provide Mohamed with adequate treatment.

On 3 February 2016, 25-year-old photojournalist Ahmed Jaber Al Fardan was arrested, after being sentenced to three months imprisonment for allegedly attempting to attend an illegal gathering in 2013. Considering his detention arbitrary, on 5 February 2016, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD), requesting it to call upon the Bahraini authorities to immediately release Al Fardan.