Amnesty: Human rights violations by Persian Gulf Arab states must end

‘Amnesty International has warned that the human rights records of Persian Gulf Arab states must not be “swept under the carpet” during the upcoming meeting of (Persian) Gulf Cooperation Council in Bahrain.
In a report released on Monday, Amnesty noted that human rights are notably absent from the agenda of the annual meeting of the six (P)GCC states of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
“Hundreds have been harassed, unlawfully prosecuted, stripped of their nationality, arbitrarily detained or in some cases imprisoned or even sentenced to death after unfair trials, as part of a concerted effort to intimidate people into silence,” said Amnesty International’s Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa Randa Habib.’
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