modern accounts of prisoner mistreatment documented in Human Rights Watch report,undermining British claims that Gulf ally has reformed security servicesBritain’s close Gulf ally Bahrain has been torturing detainees during interrogation, a main human rights watchdog says, or undermining UK government claims that the island state has reformed its security forces and improved accountability.
A report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) reveals the same sort of abuses by Bahraini personnel that were documented by an official commission of inquiry set up after popular protests against the Sunni-dominated government in 2011.
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Source: theguardian.com