Bahrain

National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-06

Bahrain has no adult-content age-verification law, social-media minor-access restriction, app-store age-verification requirement, or age-appropriate design code.

The Child Law (Law No. 37 of 2012) defines a child as a person who does not exceed eighteen Gregorian years and criminalizes luring a child and exploiting the child via the internet or other modern means of communication in matters contrary to public morals and public order or inappropriate to the child's age (Arts. 57, 66), and separately criminalizes sexually harassing a child with foreplay, showing nudity, or coercing the child into watching pornographic images or movies in any way including the internet (Art. 67), but neither provision imposes an age-verification or age-gating duty on a service provider.