Bahrain
In early 2011, at the start of the Arab Spring, demonstrations in Bahrain were broken up by the police and army.
The Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry, established by King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa in July 2011 to look into the disturbances, published a 500-page report in November 2011 that found that there were 35 deaths linked to the unrest between February and April 2011.
The Commission received 169 reports relating to enforced disappearances during this period and cited a separate report suggesting that approximately 1,000 individuals had been subjected to enforced disappearance in the same period.
In April 2011 Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) issued a report alleging arbitrary arrests, disappearances, and detentions of civilians and a systematic campaign of enforced disappearances aimed at medical staff in Bahrain.
In August 2013 the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, an NGO, published a report documenting multiple cases of enforced disappearance.
In May 2021, the UK Parliament adopted a motion condemning an attack by Bahraini police on political prisoners in Jau Prison on 17 April 2021 and the enforced disappearance of more than 60 inmates for a period of 19 days after the attack.
Bahrain has not ratified the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.
