Commission was Cherif Bassiouni, an published later in November concluded that Egyp.an who had previously led a UN security forces used excessive force and Security Council appointed commission to tortured protesters and enjoyed a culture of inves.gate war crimes in the former impunity where no one was held accountable Yugoslavia. The 513-page BICI report that was for disobeying the law.2 execu.on, awai.ng only the King ’s Bahrain has witnessed a deteriora.ng human ra.fica.on. All independent press is banned, rights situa.on and a con.nua.on of the judiciary is not independent, trials are repression since the 2011 uprising. Arbitrary not fair and do not meet the standards of arrests have been carried out on a regular interna.onal law. Civilians have been tried basis over the past several years, and security before military courts and many prisoners’ forces have con.nued a patern of torture, ill- confessions have been extracted under treatment and sexual harassment during torture. Security forces enjoy a culture of arrests in deten.on and prisons. The two impunity, while the government con.nues to main opposi.on poli.cal associa.ons, Al- abuse laws, ostensibly to protect society Wefaq and Wa’ad, were banned in 2016 and from terrorist acts; a pretext that is used to 2017, respec.vely. In June 2018, the jus.fy and legi.mise authoritarian and Government of Bahrain (GoB) ra.fied a legal regressive prac.ces against ci.zens.4 amendment barring anyone belonging to these par.es from running for poli.cal office. One such prac.ce, which has a devasta.ng The death penalty is being used against impact on individual rights, families and even ci.zens convicted in unfair trials, marred by future genera.ons, is that of ci.zenship serious due process viola.ons and allega.ons depriva.on (also referred to as na.onality of torture.3 As of 30 April 2021, there were revoca.on). Since 2012, the government has twelve individuals at imminent risk of engaged in indiscriminate arbitrar y 2 Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI), Report of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry, 2011, available at: <htp://www.bici.org.bh/> 3 SALAM DHR, Bahrain: A Deepening Spiral of Repression, 2018, available at: <htps://salam-dhr.org/?p=3505> 4 For more informa.on on the latest human rights viola.ons in Bahrain, please visit SALAM DHR’s website: <htps://salam-dhr.org/?lang=en> 9 | Arbitrary Revoca.on of Na.onality in Bahrain - a Tool of Oppression