England; Companionship with the Bahraini regime in human rights violations.
Human Rights Watch wrote in a report that the British government has provided millions of pounds to Bahraini institutions accused of severe human rights violations.
According to a report by a human rights watchdog, the British government has provided millions of pounds of funding to Bahrain’s security services, which are accused of serious human rights violations.
The English newspaper “Telegraph” reported in this regard, the Human Rights Watch report shows that the British government may have violated British laws by not properly assessing the financial support of Bahrain’s judicial system.
Seyed Ahmed Al-Wodaei, director of the London-based Bahrain Institute for Law and Democracy (BIRD), who wrote the new report jointly with Human Rights Watch, said: “I believe that the British government, in the discussion of providing aid to Bahrain, He has broken his own rules.”
The report states that the government of Bahrain has executed six prisoners since the resumption of the death penalty in 2017, and the Bahraini judicial system has assumed the innocence of at least eight of the 26 people on death row in this small island in the Persian Gulf. has neglected
According to the Human Rights Watch report, Bahraini government officials obtained many confessions from prisoners through torture, and to obtain these confessions, they subjected prisoners to electric shocks, sexual abuse, beatings, and sleep deprivation.
The author of this report says that in some cases, the prosecutors are also involved in the human rights violations of the Bahraini judicial system. However, in recent years, the British government has provided millions of pounds to its wealthy ally, Bahrain.
In response to the request of the Freedom of Information Act, the British government has clarified that it did not have any consultation with the ministers regarding the provision of financial aid to Bahrain in the financial year 2020 and 2021.
