Switzerland concerned about Al-Wefaq dissolution and travel bans for activists

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On 19 September, the Swiss representative at the United Nations Human Rights Council expressed his country’s concern about the dissolution of Bahrain’s major opposition party the Al-Wefaq Islamic National Society, and increasing the imprisonment sentence against its Secretary General Sheikh Ali Salman to 9 years. He also condemned the travel ban imposed on the Bahraini rights activists.

Read the full statement here (French only).