A human rights group has voiced concern after a company owned by Invest NI facilitated meetings between the Police Ombudsman and investigators from Bahrain.
Reprieve hit out after it emerged that officers from the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) in the Persian Gulf nation met with officials from Michael Maguire’s office in a meeting set up by NI-CO (Northern Ireland Co-operation Overseas).
Reprieve said it has obtained correspondence through freedom of information legislation which shows that officials from Bahrain wanted to be briefed on a particular ombudsman case where a PSNI officer had been vindicated.
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