Bahrain: International pressure needed now to halt spiralling human rights crisis
\n21 April 2011<\/p>\n
More than 500 people, the vast majority Shi\u2019a Muslims, have been arrested in the last month. <\/p>\n
Bahrain\u2019s allies must take stronger action to address the rapidly worsening human rights crisis in the small but strategic Gulf state, Amnesty International said today as it released a new briefing paper on the continuing suppression of peaceful protest.<\/p>\n
In Bahrain: A Human Rights Crisis, Amnesty International calls on governments with close ties to Bahrain to press for an end to the crackdown on those calling for change.<\/p>\n
\u201cNorth American and European governments, so vocal recently in espousing the cause of human rights in Libya, Tunisia and Egypt, need also to speak out loudly about what is going on in Bahrain\u201d said Malcolm Smart, Amnesty International\u2019s director for the Middle East and North Africa.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo avoid the charge of double standards, they must be much more robust in pressing the Bahraini authorities to uphold their international human rights obligations.\u201d …more<\/a><\/p>\n