{"id":4126,"date":"2011-12-05T20:16:12","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T03:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4126"},"modified":"2011-12-05T20:16:12","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T03:16:12","slug":"senator-wyden-do-not-forget-democracy-is-in-the-recipe-human-rights-reform-isnt-the-whole-enchilada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4126","title":{"rendered":"Senator Wyden, do not forget, Democracy is in the recipe, Human Rights reform isn’t the “whole enchilada”!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sen. Wyden Comments on Bahrain Arms Sale, BICI<\/strong>
\nThe POMED Wire – December 5, 2011
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\nAt an event sponsored by the Project on Middle East Democracy and the School of Advanced International Studies, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) gave a speech addressing the role of the United States in relation to ongoing unrest in Bahrain. Regarding the $53 million arms sale that he publicly opposed, Wyden said the U.S. \u201cshould not be rewarding a regime that has fired on peacefully assembled protestors, indiscriminately imprisoned its citizens simply for voicing a political viewpoint, and stifling basic human freedoms.\u201d This, he said, \u201cled me to introduce Senate Joint Resolution 28, which would stop the proposed arms sale to Bahrain until certain conditions were met.\u201d Wyden added, \u201cUntil we see measurable [reforms], and on the recommendations made by the Commission report, I will continue to raise objections to the proposed arms sale to Bahrain.<\/p>\n

Wyden stated that the BICI report \u201cconfirmed what others have been reporting about the human rights violations that took place during the protests that began earlier this year,\u201d adding that the \u201creport has shown the wisdom of stopping the arms sale.\u201d \u201cImagine if everyone in Congress had kept quiet and this arms sale had been completed. What kind of message would this have sent the world or to the people aspiring for freedom and democracy?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Senator Wyden urged the Bahraini government to \u201cimmediately begin to implement the reforms
\nrecommended by the [BICI],\u201d by \u201cholding all public officials accountable for their role in the abuses; reforming the Bahraini National Security Agency, Ministry of Interior, and Bahrain Defense Forces, all of which were involved in the systematic issue of torture against protestors; and implementing legislative changes as recommended by the national commission that is being formed.\u201d …more<\/a><\/p>\n

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Sen. Wyden Comments on Bahrain Arms Sale, BICI The POMED Wire – December 5, 2011 enchilada At an event sponsored by the Project on Middle East Democracy and the School of Advanced International Studies, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) gave a speech addressing the role of the United States in relation to ongoing unrest in Bahrain. more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[582],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}