{"id":10798,"date":"2012-07-13T12:27:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T19:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=10798"},"modified":"2012-07-13T12:27:22","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T19:27:22","slug":"western-greed-brings-callousness-toward-humanity-and-intensifies-human-rights-crisis-in-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=10798","title":{"rendered":"Western greed brings callousness toward Humanity and intensifies Human Rights Crisis in Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"

UK drops restrictions on Bahrain arms sales: report<\/strong>
\n13 July, 2012 – Al Akhbar<\/p>\n

The United Kingdom has dropped restrictions on arms sales to Bahrain despite the ongoing oppression in the Gulf state, a British magazine reported on Friday.<\/p>\n

The British government cancelled several arms deals with the state after Manama began a harsh crackdowns on popular protests in February 2011.<\/p>\n

But later in the year British officials issued the country invitations to military exhibitions, after intense lobbying and an official request from Bahrain, documents obtained by Private Eye magazine reveal.<\/p>\n

Officials also arranged meetings between British arms contractors and the Bahraini authorities, the magazine said.<\/p>\n

On Friday the British parliament’s Committee on Arms Export Controls issued a report expressing concern that current arms deals to Bahrain ignored rules on the country banning exports that might be used for internal repression.<\/p>\n

Select committee chairman John Stanley said the government needed to make “significantly more cautious judgments on the export of arms.”<\/p>\n

“Bahrain is self-evidently a very sensitive country, given the very serious human rights violations that took place there,” said Stanley. “There have been very serious human rights violations involving doctors and nurses.”<\/p>\n

On Monday, the head of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) Nabeel Rajab was sentenced to three months in jail for tweets deemed offensive to the country’s autocratic rulers.<\/p>\n

Bahraini authorities announced tough new penalties for assaulting security officers on Thursday, ranging from automatic detention to life imprisonment, according to the state-run Gulf Daily News.<\/p>\n

Said Yousif, deputy head of the BCHR, told Al-Akhbar protests were continuing in the country, including in the capital Manama despite a ban by the government.<\/p>\n

“In the US and the UK, many protest in London and Washington. So why, when it comes to Bahrain, do we have to protest in the villages?” said Yousif.<\/p>\n

Condemning the continued UK arms sales, Yousif said the government “will not use it on Iran; they will not use it for any threats from outside Bahrain. They will use it on protesters.”<\/p>\n

“The people of Bahrain are disappointed,” he added. …source<\/a><\/p>\n

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