{"id":4286,"date":"2011-12-16T18:27:08","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T01:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4286"},"modified":"2011-12-16T19:20:39","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T02:20:39","slug":"someone-needs-to-tell-uk-foreign-minister-alistair-burt-there-is-more-than-one-opposition-leader-and-many-of-them-are-in-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4286","title":{"rendered":"Someone needs to tell UK Foreign Minister Alistair Burt, there is more than one opposition leader and many of them are in Bahrain prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bahrain opposition leader to meet British minister<\/strong>
\n17 December 2011 – AFP<\/p>\n

AFP – Foreign Office Minister for the Middle East and North Africa Alistair Burt gestures during a press conference held at the British embassy to Algiera, Algiers, 2010. Bahrain’s Shiite opposition leader said Friday he is to meet the British minister for the Middle East in London, a week after the Gulf state’s King Hamad visited Britain.<\/p>\n

Foreign Office Minister for the Middle East and North Africa Alistair Burt gestures during a press conference held at the British embassy to Algiera, Algiers, 2010. Bahrain’s Shiite opposition leader said Friday he is to meet the British minister for the Middle East in London, a week after the Gulf state’s King Hamad visited Britain.<\/p>\n

AFP – Bahrain’s Shiite opposition leader said Friday he is to meet the British minister for the Middle East in London, a week after the Gulf state’s King Hamad visited Britain.<\/p>\n

“I will meet Mr. Alistair Burt on Monday,” Ali Salman, leader of Bahrain’s Al-Wefaq group, told AFP. The Foreign Office could not confirm the meeting.<\/p>\n

Burt paid a two-day visit to Bahrain this week, where he met members of the government as well as representatives of business, media and civil society.<\/p>\n

Salman said he had already met with a group of lawmakers in parliament during his trip to Britain.<\/p>\n

In talks Monday at Downing Street, Prime Minister David Cameron urged King Hamad to stick to his pledges of reform after a probe found police used excessive force against demonstrators, the premier’s office said.<\/p>\n

An independent commission said last month the death toll from a crackdown on Shiite-led pro-democracy protests earlier this year in Bahrain had reached 35, and police had used “excessive force” and tortured detainees.<\/p>\n

The king has vowed to enact reforms.<\/p>\n

Salman welcomed Cameron’s comments, saying: “Pushing the government to do real reform is welcome from us.”<\/p>\n

Britain has close trade and defence links to Bahrain but amid pressure from rights groups, London revoked licences for the export of some security equipment to the Gulf state. …source<\/a><\/p>\n

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