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June 21st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The ECCHR campaign, a Berlin-based group, said the Bahraini king’s son could be held criminally liable based on international human rights law standards, urging the UK government to ensure that the case is “not subjected to politically-driven double standards”.
According to the campaign’s documents submitted to British Prime Minister David Cameron and Foreign Secretary William Hague, Sheikh Nasser launched “a punitive campaign to repress Bahraini athletes who had demonstrated their support (for) the peaceful pro-democracy movement.”
“Following his directives more than 150 professional athletes, coaches and referees were subjected to arbitrary arrests, night raids, detention, abuse and torture by electric cables and other means,” said the ECCHR.
Sheikh Nasser, one of six sons to King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa of Bahrain, had publicly called for “a wall to fall on the heads” of all those who peacefully demonstrated against the Al-Khalifa regime.
He also headed a committee that arrested, imprisoned and tortured 150 sportsmen and sports officials, including a disabled athlete, with some prisoners saying they were personally beaten by Sheikh Nasser himself.
Furthermore, when Mohammed Hubail, Bahrain’s national football team player, was sentenced to two years imprisonment, Sheikh Nasser tweeted, “If it was up to me, I’d give them all life.”
“The irony of welcoming to the London 2012 Olympic Games an individual who is alleged to have led an organised and brutal repression of athletes … would be a blow to all athletes around the world, and irreconcilable with the UK commitment to human rights and claimed support to peaceful pro-democracy movements,” added the ECCHR.
Earlier on May, human rights activists launched an international petition on Avaaz, the online campaigning group for change, aiming to secure 10,000 signatures in order to prevent Sheikh Nasser’s entry to the UK for the Olympics and declare it as “undesirable”.
Meanwhile, on June 19, during Oral Questions in the UK parliament, Frank Roy MP for Motherwell and Wishaw, asked why the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Human Rights and Democracy report for this year does include Bahrain as a cause for concern while Amnesty International’s 2012 report referred to excessive use of force in arrest, unfair trials, torture and deaths in custody in Bahrain.
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