{"id":276713,"date":"2016-11-01T09:45:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T08:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-mps-to-probe-human-rights-situation-in-persian-gulf-arab-states\/"},"modified":"2016-11-01T19:04:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T18:04:42","slug":"uk-mps-to-probe-human-rights-situation-in-persian-gulf-arab-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/uk-mps-to-probe-human-rights-situation-in-persian-gulf-arab-states\/","title":{"rendered":"UK MPs to probe human rights situation in Persian Gulf Arab states"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A group of UK lawmakers have formed a group to scrutinize the status of democracy and human right in the Arab states of the Persian Gulf region, a Scottish MP says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Margaret Ferrier made the announcement Monday, following a seminar by Amnesty International.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The seminar was about the way some Arab countries in the Persian Gulf region were stripping political activists of their nationalities as a punishment.<\/p>\n<p>According to a press release by the International Campaign for Freedom in the United Arab Emirates (ICFUAE), the all-party parliamentary group, headed by Ferrier, \u201cwill address the increasing concerns around the human rights violations in the UAE and other Gulf countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement also slammed the UK for its ties with some of the Arab kingdoms despite blacklisting them as violators of human rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe strong ties that the UK government holds with the [Persian] Gulf countries raise ethical questions due to their human rights record,\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/11\/01\/491621\/UK-Ferrier-UAE-human-rights-Bahrain\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of UK lawmakers have formed a group to scrutinize the status of democracy and human right in the Arab states of the Persian Gulf region, a Scottish MP says. Margaret Ferrier made the announcement Monday, following a seminar by Amnesty International.\u00a0 The seminar was about the way some Arab countries in the Persian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-276713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}