UK admits training Bahrain police in ‘public order’ tactics

Middle East Eye

The British government has admitted it funded training that taught Bahraini police how to “command and control” demonstrators, after its denials were exposed by a human rights group.

Rights organisations warn that the UK’s support for the Bahraini police force, which is frequently accused of abuses and using excessive force to quell peaceful pro-democracy protests, risks “helping arrest and execute people who are guilty of nothing more than calling for reform.”

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