Human Rights Watch raps UK for inaction after Bahraini charged over censuring royal’s visit

‘Human Rights Watch (HRW) has condemned the United Kingdom for not calling on the Bahraini regime to drop charges against a senior opposition figure who had labeled a recent visit by a British royal couple to the tiny Arab kingdom as a means to “whitewash” Bahrain’s grim human rights situation.
In an interview with the Associated Press on November 11, Ibrahim Sharif of the Waad party criticized the Manama regime for hosting Prince Charles and his wife from 8 to 11 of the current month.
He had also suggested that the Al Khalifah regime should agree on a power-sharing system with political parties to counter the worsening financial pressure resulting from low oil prices.’
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