Close ally of the U.S. and headquarters of the 5th Fleet

"Bahrain has rearrested a prominent human rights advocate who has accused the country’s security services of torturing and sexually assaulting her during her previous arrest in May." "In her account of her previous arrest in May, Al-Saegh told how she had been summoned to the National Security Agency offices and on arrival she was immediately blindfolded, before being sexually assaulted and beaten."