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To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
on 26 July 2017 (HL844 and HL845), 8 January (HL4425 and HL4427), 8 May (HL7180 and
HL7183), 11 May (HL7811), 18 June (HL8316), 25 June (HL8576 and HL8577), 4 July (HL8871),
25 July (HL9605), 23 October (HL10580, HL10581, HL10582, HL10583, HL10584, and HL10585),
and 5 November (HL10908, HL10909, HL10910, and HL10961), what assessment they have
made of the UN Committee against Torture’s concluding remarks on the second and third
periodic reports of Bahrain, published on 29 May 2017, and its concerns that the Bahraini
bodies to which people may file complaints about torture or ill-treatment are “not
independent”, have “little or no effect”, and provide “negligible information regarding
the outcome of their activities”; and, in the light of those concerns, why they “encourage
those with concerns about treatment in detention to report these to the relevant human
rights oversight bodies”.
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