Queen Told To ‘Confront’ Bahrain King Over Human Rights Or Cut Ties

21st Century Wire says…
The ‘Kingdom’ of Bahrain may be a high income economy and a high ‘human development’ index, but it’s human rights are certainly nothing to brag about. And as for self censoring alongside journalists who risk jail for speaking ill of government, this shiny former emirate is as guilty as it’s Gulf neighbours.
As much as 45 million worth of weapons were sold to Bahrain from the United Kingdom up to last year.
It’s a wonder if Queen Elizabeth II will have a word with King Hamad about weapon sales in their human rights chit chat in order to gain his further attention.

This post was published at 21st Century Wire on MAY 12, 2017.