Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the human rights situation in Bahrain; and what representations he has made to his Bahraini counterpart on the issue of political prisoners.

Our latest assessment of the human rights situation in Bahrain was published as part of our Human Rights and Democracy Report in July 2020. FCDO Ministers and Embassy officials regularly raise human rights issues and individual cases with the Government of Bahrain at senior levels, most recently, during my visit to Bahrain in November 2020.