Bahrain rejects US report on human rights - Middle East

/2013425113054409997.html

  • Réaction de déception du ministère bahreïnien des Affaires Etrangères face au rapport du Département d’Etat américain sur la situation des Droits de l’Homme. La relation entre les deux alliés n’est pas au meilleur de sa forme.

    Bahrain’s foreign ministry has expressed dismay over the annual report issued by the State Department on the human rights situation in Bahrain.

    “The report lacks objectivity and impartiality, and has overlooked Bahrain’s progress in protecting and promoting human rights,” the ministry said in a statement.

    “The report did not shed light on the most significant steps taken by the kingdom towards consolidating human rights achievements. It also undermined the independence of the judicial system and overlooked facts and figures mentioned by the unit tasked with the implementation of the recommendations set by the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI),” the ministry said on Tuesday.

    According to the statement, the credibility of the US report was seriously affected and its significance eroded after it failed to include the official information provided by the government upon a request from the US embassy in Manama for the drafting of the account.

    http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/bahrain/bahrain-slams-us-rights-report-1.1174430

    • “The report includes texts which are totally far from the truth, adopting a manner that fuels terror and terrorists targeting Bahrain’s national security,” state news agency BNA late on Wednesday quoted government spokeswoman Samira Rajab as saying.

      Rajab “deplored the report for lacking objectivity, totally siding with the terrorists who seek to sow chaos in the whole region.”

      Rajab in her statement “urged the US State Department to help countries protect their national security and back their stability, the way the US itself does in the war it is waging on global terror.”

      Il est certain que le comportement des Etats Unis avec les terroristes islamistes n’a pas fini d’être revendiqué comme modèle...

      http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/04/2013425113054409997.html