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Bahraini Royals Caught Threatening Human Rights Activists

Bahraini Royals Caught Threatening Human Rights Activists
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Three Bahraini royals were involved in a public order offence on the major London shopping street in mid-April against dissidents Isa al-Ali and Moosa Abdali.

Bahraini Royals Caught Threatening Human Rights Activists

The incident was filmed by the human rights activists, showing Khalid bin Ahmad Al Khalifa, his son Rashid, and a third unidentified relative being involved in the offence.

In this regard, activists accused them saying they and their families were made targets of "malicious communications" on social media in the hours that followed.

Respectively, Human Rights Watch reported that one of the messages sent to Ali by Khalid said anyone involved in the altercation would "bear the consequences... from me personally."

It comes as Bahrain's Sunni minority government continues its crackdown against Shia-led opposition, which has been demanding a constitutional monarchy and an elected prime minister since 2011.

The video of the Oxford Street incident shows Khalid bin Ahmad al-Khalifa launching threats at Ali, 22, and Abdali, 36.

The footage also appears to show Rashid, a military officer, threatening the men's families in Bahrain.

The UK government has recently come under fire for assisting Bahraini regime forces through a £2 million [$2.5 million] program of so-called "technical assistance" despite the Gulf kingdom's record of human rights abuses.

The police investigation into the Oxford Street altercation was launched just days before King of Bahrain Hamad al-Khalifa attended the prestigious Royal Windsor Horse Show, the Middle East Eye reported.

For its part, Amnesty International warned that Bahrain is on the path to the "total suppression" of human rights following the banning of the opposition group the National Democratic Action Society [Waad].

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

 

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