Bahrain Mirror: UK Member of Parliament Margaret Farrier said that she, in addition to other MPs, are working on establishing a human rights parliamentary group concerned with human rights affairs in the Gulf. She clarified that she is “just waiting for the confirmation that I can go ahead” and launch its work.
In an exclusive interview with Lualua TV (Saturday November 19, 2016), MP Farrier said that the group is “an all-party parliamentary group on democracy and human rights in the Gulf”. She added, “As the name suggests, I reached out to other member of parliament from all parties and so we got together, and it’s basically to discuss these issues of human rights abuses and the revocation of citizenship in some of the Gulf countries as well.” “We’re just at the very beginning but hopefully in the next few weeks we’ll have our first meeting and being together some NGOs and some good speakers,” she went on to say.
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