No human rights checks before police training
Scottish Police provided training to senior officers from the Saudi and Bahraini police forces without carrying out any human rights checks, Freedom of Information requests by international human rights organisation Reprieve has revealed.
Under UK Government policy, a formal assessment is meant to be carried out before justice or security assistance is provided to states where it could contribute to the death penalty. However, FOI requests to Police Scotland and the UK College of Policing, who provided the Saudi and Bahraini training, found that no information was held on such assessments.
Read more here: http://www.reprieve.org.uk/press/police-scotland-trained-saudi-bahraini-officers-without-human-rights-checks/
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