UK’s High Court ruled that Bahraini Prince Nasser bin Hamad
al-Khalifa will not be given his legal immunity against arrest and prosecution
in the United Kingdom after hard evidence showing he detained the leaders of a
pro-democracy movement in Bahrain.
Since 2012, the Bahraini government had imprisoned human rights
advocates and pro-democracy groups in the country, often accompanied by
torturing captured protesters and the leaders during their imprisonment. A law
firm representing a Bahraini refugee in the UK, Deighton Pierce Glynn (DPG) is
pushing the case with evidence showing alleged torture of inmates in Bahraini prisons.
It is about time that the Prince was given such a sanction
provided that these activities have been going on for years before. Despite the
pleas from the European Centre for Constitution and Human Rights (ECCHR) and
the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR), the UK High Court had strongly
sided with the anonymous Bahraini refugee.
The refugee had presented medium evidence indicating that “flogging,
beating and kicking” two pro-democracy leaders at the Manama Fort prison clinic
al-Qala’a in 2011.
The CPS had also released their statement that they “can no
longer maintain their position that the prince could have immunity in line with
recent case law on this issue.”
About time if you asked me!
