A new report by Amnesty International criticizes the U.S.-backed Bahraini government for continuing to commit human rights violations against anti-government protesters. Suzanne Nossel is executive director of Amnesty International USA.

Suzanne Nossel: “It continues to hold large numbers of people in detention. It has imposed very harsh sentences on people without fair trials. There are 14 opposition leaders that remain in custody. There has been no high-level accountability for those abuses. So we see window dressing in the form of this independent investigation that gave an aura of seriousness on the part of the government in terms of living up to their human rights responsibilities, but really very little in the way of follow-through.”