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Lords Chamber
Gulf States: Human Rights Abuses - Thu 24 Nov 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Scriven (LDEM - Life peer) I have taken his advice previously and engaged with the ombudsman on multiple occasions. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Featherstone (LDEM - Life peer) We have a huge army of personnel there—police engagement officers, Ministry of Defence advisers, even - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Bahraini Political Prisoners - Thu 13 Jan 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) that fund has supported regimes with poor human rights records.The UK could stop funding Bahrain’s Ministry - Speech Link
2: Alistair Carmichael (LDEM - Orkney and Shetland) the Interior, Sheikh Rashid bin Abdullah al-Khalifa, in the wake of an appallingly violent attack against - Speech Link
3: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) It is disgraceful that the UK’s Ministry of Defence has carried out training programmes with Bahraini - Speech Link
4: James Cleverly (CON - Braintree) of Interior Ombudsman, the Special Investigations Unit, and the Prisoners and Detainees Rights Commission.Members - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Integrated Activity Fund: Transparency - Thu 22 Oct 2020
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) judges and representatives from the Ministry of Interior visited the UK in 2018 and 2019 under the IAF - Speech Link
2: Peter Bottomley (CON - Worthing West) the Opposition activists whose experience of the Bahraini justice institutions was appalling.I have - Speech Link
3: Andy Slaughter (LAB - Hammersmith) They all have wonderful names, such as the ombudsman. - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Naji Fateel, a prominent Bahraini human rights defender, is currently serving a combined sentence of - Speech Link
5: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) Does the Minister not agree that those bodies provide the Bahraini Government with a veneer of reform - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Bahrain: Prisoners Under Sentence of Death - Thu 09 Jul 2020
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: James Cleverly (CON - Braintree) the use of capital punishment, with the Bahraini authorities will continue. - Speech Link
2: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) and the ombudsman for the Ministry of Interior—were funded by this Government. - Speech Link
3: James Cleverly (CON - Braintree) One of the advantages of having more than 200 years of relationship with the Bahraini is that we can - Speech Link
4: Navendu Mishra (LAB - Stockport) the ombudsman of the Ministry of Interior and the Bahraini special investigation unit in 2019. - Speech Link
5: Ian Mearns (LAB - Gateshead) It seems to be the case—I want to understand why—that the FCO has defended the Bahraini ombudsman and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Bahrain: Human Rights - Wed 13 Mar 2019
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Scriven (LDEM - Life peer) It talks about the Interior Ministry interfering, as well as parliamentary interference in these oversight - Speech Link
2: Baroness Stern (CB - Life peer) They set up the National Institute for Human Rights, the Ministry of Interior Ombudsman and the Prisoners - Speech Link
3: Baroness Morris of Bolton (CON - Life peer) Ombudsman for the Ministry of Interior with responsibility for prisons, and members of the National - Speech Link
4: Baroness Goldie (CON - Life peer) They include the National Institute for Human Rights, the Ministry of Interior Ombudsman, the Special - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Bahrain - Tue 11 Sep 2018
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Andy Slaughter (LAB - Hammersmith) The FCO has funded training for various arms of the Bahraini Government, including the Ministry of Interior - Speech Link
2: Andy Slaughter (LAB - Hammersmith) for the Ministry of Interior and the Special Investigation Unit, the SIU. - Speech Link
3: Rehman Chishti (CON - Gillingham and Rainham) , which is supported through UK funding:“In 2014 the Ministry of Interior Ombudsman’s Office won the - Speech Link
4: Fabian Hamilton (LAB - Leeds North East) Does he feel that the introduction of an ombudsman, which the UK helped to provide, train and support - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Gulf States: Human Rights - Thu 08 Feb 2018
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Scriven (LDEM - Life peer) The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has repeatedly told Sayed to report the issues to the ombudsman of - Speech Link
2: Baroness Warsi (CON - Life peer) My Lords, I know that my noble friend is a huge advocate of the human right of freedom of religion and - Speech Link
3: Baroness Tonge (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Of course, I give the example of Israel which abuses the human rights of the Palestinian people, whose - Speech Link
4: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (CON - Life peer) may be, candidly, very clearly and in a very honest manner with our Bahraini counterparts. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Syria and the Middle East - Thu 27 Feb 2014
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Noon (LAB - Life peer) On one of my trips to Bahrain, I had to transfer power of attorney to my Bahraini partner and a legal - Speech Link