Bahrain: Deport of Nationals

What follows are parts of the statements made by leading human rights organizations of Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International in reaction to Bahrain monarchy’s announcement to deprive more than 70 Bahrainis form their homeland nationality:
Amnesty International … called on the Bahrain authorities to halt its intensified crackdown on the rights to freedom of expression, association and movement after a week which has seen the suspension of the country’s main opposition group Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society and the stripping of the nationality of its spiritual leader, and the arrest of prominent human rights defender and prisoner of conscience Nabeel Rajab.
The past week has also seen a group of five activists, including human rights defenders, prevented from travelling to Geneva to take part in the United Nations Human Rights Council session and Jalila al-Salman, vice-president of the Bahrain Teacher’s Association, prevented from travelling to Oslo to take part in the Arthur Svensson award ceremony. On Saturday, another human rights defender, Abdulnabi al-Ekri, was also prevented from travelling to Geneva.
Amnesty International is deeply concerned by the Bahrain authorities’ move to suspend Al-Wefaq. Encouraging peaceful protests and boycotts, expressing solidarity with its Secretary General, a prisoner of conscience, peacefully criticising the Bahraini authorities and its constitutional legitimacy, calling for the intervention of the international community and using religious forums to give political messages are all legitimate forms of freedom of association and expression. The court judgement ordering the suspension of Al-Wefaq provides no clear reasoning to support the assertion that the Twitter postings in question, made on 12 and 14 February 2015, one of which was subsequently deleted, “supported” or incited to violence.
Also Human Rights Watch has condemned the decision stating that : “Bahrain’s government and ruling family are slamming shut the door on political reform, while simultaneously stoking dissent.” “Bahrain’s allies in Washington and
London should be unequivocal and public in their condemnation and make
it clear that these provocations will have an impact on military
assistance and strategic relations.”
A vaguely-worded 2014 amendment to article 10 of the Bahraini citizenship law of 1963 allows the Interior Ministry to revoke citizenship from any person who “caused harm to the interests of the Kingdom or behaved in a way inimical with the duty of loyalty to it.” In December 2015, Bahrain’s courts effectively granted the Interior Ministry full discretion to revoke the citizenship of any Bahraini, stating that “it is established that the decision to revoke citizenship may be proved by any incident or evidence without a requirement for a specific means of proof.”
Since the beginning of 2015, authorities have stripped more than 200 Bahrainis of their citizenship, leaving many of them stateless. They include more than 30 human rights defenders, political activists, journalists, doctors, and religious scholars, as well as people convicted of terrorism and others who have fought for the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.
At the same time Bahrein NGOs are sending “urgent appeals to other NGOs warning the world civil society of the poor prison conditions threatening the life the recently arrested leading human rights defender:
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) expresses its great concern over the well-being of its detained President, the well-known human rights defender Nabeel Rajab. Rajab suffers from several illnesses which are worsening due to the poor prison conditions.
There are serious allegations of torture in Bahrain prisons and on the occasion of June 26th, the international day in support of victims of torture a report titled: " From 2011 to 2016, The Screams of Torture Still Echo" is published by a Bahrain NGO describing the cases of torture in the country’s prisons in 2016.

source:

https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde11/4312/2016/en/
https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/06/22/bahrain-senior-cleric-faces-deportation
https://www.hrw.org/about/people/joe-stork
http://www.bahrainrights.org/en/node/7947
http://www.bahrainrights.org/sites/default/files/file_attach/BCHRReportonTorture26June.pdf