A Bahraini human rights activist and torture survivor claims Prince Charles’s visit to the Arab kingdom is being used to “whitewash” its record on civil liberties.
The Prince of Wales is touring the Gulf state until Friday as part of a trip that includes “greenlighting” a £30m British navy base.
Refugee Sayed Alwadaei, director of advocacy at the Bahrain Institute of Rights and Democracy (BIRD), spoke exclusively to The Independent after recently being reunited with the family he thought he would never see again.
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