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"Madam President, in 2012, together with fellow members of the Human Rights Subcommittee I visited Nabeel Rajab in Juw Prison, Bahrain, and today, four years later, he is rearrested and the Fédération Internationale des Droits de l’Homme tell us that he is in solitary confinement and his life is at risk.
This is just one case, but should be put together with the travel bans against those human rights defenders, preventing them going to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on the restoration of the death sentence and on the arrest of opposition politicians, all cited in our resolution. The truth is that four years later, human rights in Bahrain have deteriorated. We recognise there have been improvements on labour laws and on the freedom of religion, but there has been no improvement on human rights. We see that freedom of expression is violated, contrary to the country’s own constitution, and more than 300 people have been stripped of citizenship, contrary to the Universal Declaration on Human Rights. We want cooperation with Bahrain, but our resolution says that that cooporation cannot continue as normal unless we see the improvement of human rights. Human rights in this country must change. They have to listen, and we will never ever forget a human rights defender who is at risk, anywhere in the world."@en1
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