End Bahrain complicity, says Roots
Roots of Resistance is campaigning for the University of Huddersfield to drop an MSc being delivered for the Bahrain Royal Academy of Policing
The Quaker group Roots of Resistance (RoR) stepped up its campaign against the University of Huddersfield this month calling for the institution to end ‘its complicity’ with the Bahraini regime, which has been condemned for torture and human rights abuses.
Supported by a minute from Huddersfield Meeting, the group took part in a vigil at the university’s entrance on 8 February and wrote to the university’s vice chancellor and president of the students union asking that its MSc in Security Science delivered for the Bahrain Royal Academy of Policing be suspended. The letter was sent in conjunction with the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy.
Helen Meads, from High Flatts Meeting, told the Friend: ‘At the same time, articles appeared in The Times and The Yorkshire Post highlighting the links between the recently disgraced Andrew Windsor (compelled to stand back from his role as the university’s chancellor late last year) and the Bahrain police, together with news of firsthand accounts of human rights abuses and torture at the hands of the same police force.’
RoR activists were joined by allies from Amnesty and other groups in the vigil at the university’s main gate.
