UK home secretary apologises over unlawful detention of Bahraini activist

Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei receives compensation from government after being stopped at GatwickThe home secretary, James Cleverly, has apologised and arranged for compensation to be paid to a human rights activist after officials unlawfully detained him at Gatwick airport on his return to the UK from a UN meeting in Switzerland.Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, a prominent Bahraini human rights activist and advocacy director of the London-based NGO Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy, is a torture survivor who was granted asylum in the UK in 2012 after he fled persecution at the hands of Bahraini authorities. Continue reading…



Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/08/james-cleverly-apology-unlawful-detention-bahraini-activist-sayed-ahmed-alwadaei

Author : Diane Taylor

Publish date : 2024-02-08 18:00:18

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