In December, several human rights groups wrote a letter to the incoming Biden administration requesting changes in U.S. foreign policy to Bahrain. 18 organizations, including Americans for Democracy and Human Rights and the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy, provided a blueprint on how to mitigate violence in Bahrain. According to Al Jazeera, the letter references Bahrain’s peaceful 2011 Arab Spring uprising, where thousands of protestors demanded democratic reform. However, the movement was quickly suppressed by the oppressive Al Khalifa regime in a “barrage of human rights violations followed by the imposition of draconian measures.” Concluding the letter, the organizations detail specific foreign policy recommendations, which include the release of wrongly imprisoned political opposition figures, compensation for victims of government abuse, and punishment for officials who have committed human-rights related crimes. Additionally, it was reported that the signatorie