Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the accuracy of the Human Rights Watch 2020 Annual Report's finding that (a) human rights in Bahrain have not improved, (b) online repression has increased and (c) the use of the death penalty continued to be marred by torture allegations and due process violations; and what assessment he has made of the effect of those findings on UK technical assistance to Bahrain.

We take note of a number of sources of information and continue to monitor closely developments on all matters that relate to human rights within Bahrain, publishing our assessments in the annual Human Rights Report, most recently in July 2020.