PROBE CALL
By KANWAL TARIQ HAMEED
Published: 27 September 2006
MANAMA: A call went out yesterday for an independent inquiry into the Bandargate report – and the man behind it. Members of human rights organisations, political societies and MPs are to meet tomorrow, to decide what action to demand over the report.
They will hold a “national gathering” at the National Democratic Action Society premises on Thursday night.
Representatives from the Haq movement, the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, Al Wefaq National Islamic Society, National Democratic Action Society (Wa’ed), Islamic Action (Amal) Society and the Constitutional Conference and a number of MPs are spearheading the gathering, which is expected to develop into a broader movement working for action over the report.
PROBE CALL
By KANWAL TARIQ HAMEED
Published: 27 September 2006
MANAMA: A call went out yesterday for an independent inquiry into the Bandargate report – and the man behind it. Members of human rights organisations, political societies and MPs are to meet tomorrow, to decide what action to demand over the report.
They will hold a “national gathering” at the National Democratic Action Society premises on Thursday night.
Representatives from the Haq movement, the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, Al Wefaq National Islamic Society, National Democratic Action Society (Wa’ed), Islamic Action (Amal) Society and the Constitutional Conference and a number of MPs are spearheading the gathering, which is expected to develop into a broader movement working for action over the report.
MPs and civil societies yesterday called for an official investigation by an independent commission into the Bandargate allegations that a secret organisation, funded by a senior government official, has been working to influence the outcome of the next parliamentary elections.
Some also want an investigation into the report’s co-author, Gulf Centre for Democratic Development secretary-general Dr Salah Al Bandar – with one MP saying he may have been a spy.
Dr Al Bandar, who had been working as a strategic planning adviser to the Cabinet Affairs Ministry since October last year, was deported to the UK on September 13.
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