"The lack of governance is always appearing on this kind of things. There is no intiatives, nobody's holding themself accountable, responsible for anything. And everybody's saying that 'It's not my responsibility’,” Al Khalifa told the BBC.
"The challenge is that because the law is not endorsed if the process had happened before the coup, and then the law [would be] within the minister of justice administration, whether they have a comment on it and then return it back to the council of ministers," she explained. "But then the coup happened, and now we have been without the government since the resignation of the prime minister. So, we actually don't have a government."
“I believe there are so many other similar crimes in the villages and towns that are far from the media. We only get to hear about those which are taken to the police,” Nahla Yousif, head of the Future Development Organization, told the Guardian. “It’s all about ignorance and lack of awareness, they think it’s shameful to see their daughters having relationships. These crimes have always been here, but they are now increasing due to the lack of accountability.”