(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The representatives of 44 countries at the 22nd meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva in a joint statement expressed their worries about the human rights conditions in the tiny Persian Gulf island country of Bahrain.
"We have special concerns about the continuation of restrictions and solitary confinements of those people who exercise their rights of the freedom of thought and freedom expression," part of the statement read.
"We are also worried about the Bahraini government's decisions in stripping 31 Bahrainis from their nationalities and also sacking and jailing the Bahraini medical staff," it added.
The statement also underlined the need for expediting implementation of recommendations of Bassyouni fact-finding committee and also the Human Rights Council's recommendations on Bahrain with periodic reviews.
Anti-government protesters have been holding peaceful demonstrations across Bahrain since mid-February 2011, calling for an end to the al-Khalifa dynasty's over-40-year rule, end of discrimination, establishment of justice and a democratically-elected government as well as freedom of detained protesters.
So far, tens of people have been killed, hundreds have gone missing and thousands of others have been injured.
In a recent development, hundreds of thousands of Bahraini protesters took to the streets in the capital Manama and other cities across the Persian Gulf island to mark the second anniversary of their uprising against the Al-Khalifa regime in February 2011, calling on the country's rulers to step down.
More than 300,000 protesters poured to the streets across the tiny Persian Gulf island country in a bid to celebrate the beginning of the third year of their revolution against the al-Khalifa regime which started on February 14, 2011.
The massive population of protesters reiterated their opposition to dictatorship in the country, and called on the al-Khalifa regime to step down.
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