EU and rights groups urge Bahrain to end crackdown on dissidents

‘The EU and the 35-member UN Human Rights Council have urged Bahrain to end its heavy-handed crackdown on political dissent.
Slovakia’s permanent representative to the UN office in Geneva Fedor Rosocha, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, voiced concerns “about measures against Bahrain’s opposition political society.”
Brussels is alarmed with the “dissolution of the opposition al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, the 9-year-long prison sentence handed down to its Secretary General Sheikh Ali Salman, detention and travel bans on human rights activists, and the re-arrest of Nabeel Rajab,” he said.’
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