Saudi Arabia's latest behaviour shouldn't be a surprise
WHEN journalist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul and never came out the world responded in the appropriate way – with outrage.
Maryam al-Khawaja: Bahrain remains in the grip of oppression, and the UK Government is partly to blame
LAST year exiled Bahraini human rights activist Maryam al-Khawaja told The National the UK had “become a problem” for freedoms in the Gulf region. Now the co-director of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) has written an exclusive response to the UK Government’s new focus on the region for The National following visits by both Prime Minister Theresa May and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson. Al-Khawaja, who left her country for Europe to avoid a jail sentence, writes as her father Abdulhadi remains in prison for his pro-democracy work. He was sentenced to life by a military court on terror charges for his role in Bahrain’s civil uprising.
