2 more events in London

 

Lord Avebury, Vice-Chairman of The Parliamentary Human Rights Group

 

Cordially invites you to a seminar to mark Bahrain’s Martyrs Day

 

Deconstructing British-backed tribal dictatorship

Despite all indications and symptoms of un-reformable regime that has adopted “systematic torture” to subdue opponenst, UK has continued its unequivocal support to Alkhalifa of Bahrain. Calls to change this policy, the latest of which has come from the 84-page report titled “The Blood of People Who Don’t Cooperate” have fallen on deaf ears in Whitehall. It is time that UK disengaged from this losing situation and supported democratic transformation.

 Speakers

Dr Abdulhadi Khalaf, former MP

Mohammad Al Tajir, Human rights lawyer, former prisoner

Michaela Whitton, Freelance journalist & HR activist

David Binns, Labour unionist

Time: 11.15 pm – 12.45, Monday 14^th December 2015

Place: Committee Room G, House of Lords, London SW1A 0PW (Entrance at the Black Rod’s Garden at the end of main Parliament building) 

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To discuss the challenges facing Bahrain and to outline human rights and reform concerns,

The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Democracy in Bahrain,

Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD), and

Human Rights Watch  invite you to a Panel Event:

“What Next for Bahrain?”

Wednesday, 16 December 2015, 6pm-8pm

Wilson Room, Portcullis House

House of Commons

Speakers:

Andy Slaughter MP, Shadow Justice Minister (Labour)

Nicholas McGeehan, Bahrain Researcher at Human Rights Watch

Abdulhadi Khalaf, Senior Lecturer at Lund University

Alaa Shehabi, Founder of Bahrain Watch

Marc Owen Jones, PhD Candidate at Durham University