Bahrain: Human Rights

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office written question – answered at on 23 March 2023.

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Photo of Kenny MacAskill Kenny MacAskill Alba, East Lothian

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 14 March 2023 to Question 161427 on Bahrain: Demonstrations, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the complaint made by the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy to relevant oversight bodies in Bahrain on 6 March 2023.

Photo of David Rutley David Rutley Assistant Whip (HM Treasury), Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

The FCDO and others were copied into the issues raised with a number of bodies by the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy on 6 March. We continue to follow human rights issues and cases within Bahrain closely and we encourage those with concerns to raise them directly with the appropriate Bahraini oversight body.

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