'I don't believe I would have been told to 'go back' to the country that violently tortured me if it weren't for the colour of my skin,' the campaigner said
‘I don’t believe I would have been told to ‘go back’ to the country that violently tortured me if it weren’t for the colour of my skin,’ the campaigner said
Amnesty International says the regime in Bahrain, a close economic ally of the UK, has “continued to commit serious human rights violations, including torture and other ill-treatment as well as suppression of freedom of expression and assembly” “Stewart is acting as a mouthpiece by publicly denying its notorious and extensively documented human rights abuses – abuses which have been condemned by the United Nations.”
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