EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) bahrain

Call for stronger EU action on human rights

Brussels, 07/12/2012 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 5 December, human rights activists from Bahrain rang alarm bells at the rise in violence and growing violations of human rights, and they called on the EU to be firmer towards Bahrain's authorities. In an interview with EUROPE, Said Yousif Almuhafdah from the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights and Ahmed Al-Haddad from the European-Bahraini Organisation for Human Rights called on the EU to ban the export of tear gas from the EU, which is used...