{"id":654862,"date":"2022-05-15T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/15\/exiles-angry-as-queen-hosts-king-of-bahrain"},"modified":"2022-05-15T08:00:26","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T08:00:26","slug":"exiles-angry-as-queen-hosts-king-of-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/05\/15\/exiles-angry-as-queen-hosts-king-of-bahrain\/","title":{"rendered":"Exiles angry as Queen hosts king of Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK is \u2018haven for dictators\u2019 says critic after Queen invites ruler who outlawed political opposition in Middle Eastern state to the Royal Windsor horse show<\/p><p>The king of Bahrain is expected to attend the Royal Windsor horse show on Sunday after a personal invitation from the Queen, prompting anger from campaigners who claim the UK is \u201csportswashing\u201d what they say is an increasingly repressive regime.<\/p><p>King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa has been invited as a guest of the Queen, demonstrating a warmth of official ties despite the Middle Eastern state\u2019s outlawing of political opposition, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/location\/middle-east-and-north-africa\/bahrain\/report-bahrain\/#:~:text=BAHRAIN%202021,resulted%20in%20impunity%20for%20perpetrators.\" title=\"\">human rights violations <\/a>including torture.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/15\/exiles-angry-as-queen-hosts-king-of-bahrain\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/15\/exiles-angry-as-queen-hosts-king-of-bahrain\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK is \u2018haven for dictators\u2019 says critic after Queen invites ruler who outlawed political opposition in Middle Eastern state to the Royal Windsor horse showThe king of Bahrain is expected to attend the Royal Windsor horse show on Sunday after a personal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[746,6,1258,2031,2028,438,1314,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":654863,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654862\/revisions\/654863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}