Bahrain has nothing but rhetoric and Western Public Relations bills to show for “reforms” it has promised time and again

Bahrain Activists: Manama Ignoring Human Rights Reform
By Anissa Haddadi – 16 March, 2012 – IBT

More than eight months since the Bahraini Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI) was established, the government has failed to implement most of the recommendations, activists say.

The kingdom’s leader, King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, ordered that an Independent Commission of Inquiry be set up.

The commission was tasked with determining “whether the events of February and March 2011 (and thereafter) involved violations of international human rights law and norms, and to make the recommendations that it deems appropriate,” according to its website.

Months after the publication of the BICI’s report, however, activists and opposition leaders say the government has failed to implement most of the recommendations.

A new website and organisation called Bahrain Watch has even set up an “implementation tracker” explaining which recommendations the government has failed to carry through.

Some of them include the authority’s failure to establish an impartial, national independent mechanism to punish those responsible for death, torture, and mistreatment, to provide audio-visual recordings of all official interviews with detainees and to conduct effective investigations of all deaths attributed to security forces, as well as all allegations of torture and similar mistreatment. …more