Press TV: UK legitimizes tyrants by association. 11 April 2021, Composite image PressTV
A decade since widespread pro-democracy protests rocked the Arab world many of the autocrats in these countries still remain in power.The promises of reform turned out to be big lies while torture and imprisonment of political dissidents and journalists persist to this day.
While these kings, sheiks and emirs are ruling their people with a rod of iron, the British royal family seems to be more willing than ever to visit the Persian Gulf’s tyrannies, presumably giving them legitimacy and a pat on the back.
A new research by Declassified UK has thrown into sharp relief the unconditional support the Persian Gulf autocrats have enjoyed over the past decade by the House of Windsor.
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David Cameron welcomes Hamad bin Khalifa, the King of Bahrain, to Downing Street on August 6th 2013.
Following the successful uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, mass protests were spreading across the Middle East in February 2011. Bahrain, which had seen periodic uprisings against the ruling Al Khalifa monarchy that has governed the country with an iron fist for over 200 years and long oppressed its majority Shia population, was no exception.
Witnessing the electric scenes coming out of Tahrir Square, Bahraini organisers called a protest in solidarity with Egypt on the 4 February and a Day of Rage on 14 February. The date had been chosen to coincide with the ten year anniversary of the âNational Action Charterâ which were supposed to be a series of reforms agreed by referendum that had put an end to the last uprising â and that had completely failed to materialise.