A call for the Stormont executive to suspend the work of a Belfast based company training security forces in Bahrain has been rejected.
NI-CO, owned by Invest NI, has worked with the police and prison services in the Gulf state.
In a report published in September, human rights group Reprieve said those organisations were guilty of torture.I
It called on Stormont economy minister Simon Hamilton to suspend the contract.
But in a letter to the group, the minister said the executive was not in a position to suspend the company’s work in Bahrain as it didn’t award the contract.
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