GUARDIAN PHOTO/article – Bahranian exiles, Peter Tatchel, O’Reilly brothers (Ciaron & Brendan), Catholic Worker volunteers (Drew, Andre, Marcin) take on Saud family at Buckingham Palace over Royal Wedding guest list!
Bahrain ‘torture service’ official to attend royal wedding
Ambassador to UK was previously in charge of Bahraini agency that is accused of electric shocks and beating
Protesters at Buckingham Palace in London demonstrate against Bahrain’s prescence at the royal wedding. The crown prince is to stay away but the ambassador is still planning to attend. Photograph: Ian Langsdon/EPA
The former head of an agency accused of torture and human rights abuses is expected to be a guest at Friday’s royal wedding, the Guardian has learned.
Sheikh Khalifa Bin Ali al-Khalifa is a former head of Bahrain’s National Security Agency (NSA) and will attend the wedding in his role as the current Bahraini ambassador to London.
British sources confirmed he had been invited and a spokesperson for the Bahraini embassy in London said he was expected to attend.
Khalifa was head of the agency from 2005 to 2008. The pressure group Human Rights Watch alleges that in 2007 detainees in Bahrain suffered torture including electric shocks and beatings.
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Ciaron O’Reilly
“The poor tell us who we are,
The prophets tell us who we could be,
So we hide the poor,
And kill the prophets.”
Phil Berrigan
From Bahrain to Libya – the struggle for peace and democracy
Public meeting
May 10 TLC building Peel st 7pm
The uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East are transforming the region. This forum will explore what these events mean for the peace movement in Australia.
In particular the speakers will debate whether or not the peace movement should support the NATO intervention in Libya.
Speakers
Ross Daniels – human rights activist and QUT lecturer
Adrian Skerritt – from the Solidarity magazine
MC- Annette Brownlie
Forum hosted by Just Peace
http://www.justpeaceqld.org
For more info – contact Annette Brownlie 0431597256
What Wedding ?
Resistance to police state methods and brutality is ongoing in Bristol as a second riot breaks out on Stokes Croft.
Police brutally attack protestors at Stokes Croft and rampage as far north as Cheltnam Road, Bishopston (see video).
Rioting in St. Pauls as well with Tesco attacked. Prison riot rumoured at Horfield nick. see UK Indymedia