{"id":919856,"date":"2022-12-14T16:49:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T16:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/14\/mep-bahrain-visit-tomas-zdechovsky-parliament-vote-abdulhadi-al-khawaja"},"modified":"2022-12-14T16:49:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T16:49:18","slug":"revealed-mep-in-prisoner-resolution-row-made-undeclared-bahrain-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/12\/14\/revealed-mep-in-prisoner-resolution-row-made-undeclared-bahrain-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: MEP in prisoner resolution row made undeclared Bahrain visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European parliament due to vote on Thursday on resolution calling for release of Bahraini activist <\/p><p>A senior MEP is facing questions over trips to Bahrain and his support for a \u201cone-sided\u201d resolution on a political prisoner from that country that echoes the talking points of the authoritarian Gulf state.<\/p><p>Tom\u00e1\u0161 Zdechovsk\u00fd, a centre-right Czech MEP, who chairs the European parliament\u2019s Bahrain friendship group, was found by the Guardian to have made an undeclared visit to the country in April 2022, where he met Bahrain\u2019s chamber of commerce.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/14\/mep-bahrain-visit-tomas-zdechovsky-parliament-vote-abdulhadi-al-khawaja\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/14\/mep-bahrain-visit-tomas-zdechovsky-parliament-vote-abdulhadi-al-khawaja\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European parliament due to vote on Thursday on resolution calling for release of Bahraini activist A senior MEP is facing questions over trips to Bahrain and his support for a \u201cone-sided\u201d resolution on a political prisoner from that country that echoes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6516,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[746,471,1322,6,1258,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919856"}],"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\/6516"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":919857,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919856\/revisions\/919857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}