Prince Charles and the UK Foreign Office are under fire from human right activists over the royal wedding guest list for the royal wedding scheduled Friday. The royal wedding guest list contains names of dictators and heads of dictatorial regimes. Demonstarations have been planned by advocates outside 5-star hotels and Westminister Abbey against inclusion of dictators into the royal wedding guest list.
Bahrain’s Crown Prince was compelled not to attend the royal wedding due to the strong fury over his characters and input in onslaught on protestors demonstrating for democracy in the Gulf state.
Advocates of human righst have vowed to stop the stay of Prince Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa in the U.K with a string of demonstrations. The activists are asserting that he is the key designer of the brutal reaction of the security forces backed by Saudi Arabia against peaceful demonstrators asking for democracy.
The undertaking of human rights activists to demonstrate against the dictators comes in the wake of imprisionment of around 500 pro-democracy protestors in Bahrain since the protests sparked in February. Increasing international rage was also noted when the establishment targetted medical workers keen to treat injured people.
Meanwhile the Prince of Bahrain has written a letter to the Price of Wales in which he has apologized for not being able to attend the royal wedding. The Prince expressed his regret over his withdrwal and stated that “had left the decision for as long as possible in the sincere hope that ongoing events – resulting from recent unrest in the Kingdom of Bahrain – might have improved, leaving me able to join the celebrations without being overshadowed by issues in Bahrain."
Sources state that demonstrations against the inclusion of many other dictators into the royal wedding guest list are still open to go despite the withdrawal of Bahrain’s prince. The protests are directed at the inclusion of Prince Mohamed bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia, the King of Swaziland and ambassador of Zimbabwe to the UK into the royal wedding guest list.
Meanwhile the people of Bahrain living in the UK have planned to hold demonstrations near Westminster Abbey against the inclusion of Prince Salman into the royal wedding guest list. It is pertinent to note that Prince Salman has been the head of the military forces since 1999.
Prince Salman blasted the British media for misrepresenting his position on the current events. “(The British media had) fundamentally misrepresented my own position on recent events and sought to involve my attendance as a proxy for wider matters involving Bahrain,’ Prince Salman wrote in a letter to Prince Charles.
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