UK and US concerned at arrest of politician after Prince Charles visit to Bahrain

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The British government is to raise concerns with the Bahraini government over the arrest of a politician, Ebrahim Sharif, following last week’s visit to Bahrain by Prince Charles.

During the visit, Sharif gave an interview to a US news agency in which he suggested that Charles’s day-long tour of the island kingdom could “whitewash” an ongoing crackdown on dissent.

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