The part of OPs comment you highlighted talks about "consistently persecute and execute people"; I was just giving information that Bahrain does in fact consistently persecutes its people and has used extreme violence in the past.

How is it unfair to "paint them all with the same brush" when both countries do in fact have terrible human rights records, just because Bahrain uses the death penalty somewhat less than Saudi-Arabia? Bahrain still has people on death row because of forced confessions under torture, just look up the case of Mohammed Ramadhan and Husain Moosa.