“I want them to return my son as healthy as they took him,” said the mother of cancer victim Sayed Kadhem Abbas Al-Sehlawi (23) when he was released in 2018, after his health condition sharply deteriorated.

A report about top diseases in Bahrain revealed that the diseases that caused death in 2013 included chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lower respiratory infections, breast cancer and others.

Residents of Bahrain’s Bilad Al-Qadeem complained that their area has been neglected by the government, adding that there are a number of mosques prone to collapse.