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Queen invites tyrant to posh horse show
Blue bloods enjoy dressage as Bahraini human rights defenders despair
Queen Elizabeth II (left) with the King of Bahrain, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, during the endurance phase at the Royal Windsor Horse Show, held in the grounds of Windsor Great Park in Berkshire, today
HUMAN rights campaigners branded the Queen’s invitation for the Bahraini dictator to the annual Royal Windsor Horse Show a “moral disgrace” yesterday.
Bahrain’s absolute ruler King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa arrived into Britain on Thursday at the behest of the Queen to attend Britain’s largest outdoor horse show despite warnings that his regime has intensified its already brutal human rights abuses.
Director of the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (Bird) Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, who has family members jailed in the country for speaking out against the absolute monarchy, described the situation as shameful.
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