North Africa and the Near and Middle East

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 5:04 pm on 28 November 2011.

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Photo of Jeremy Corbyn Jeremy Corbyn Labour, Islington North 5:04, 28 November 2011

I compliment my right hon. Friend on her meeting with the ambassador and the efforts that she and Lord Avebury have made. Does she agree with me, however, that the current process in Bahrain is pretty awful but not particularly new and that it goes back to the suspension of the constitution a couple of decades ago and the continual denial of rights of free expression ever since? This is a merely a descent into that and much of the surveillance of the opposition is done using equipment supplied by Britain.