Human Rights Watch urged the European Union High Representative, Catherine Ashton, to push for the immediate release of 13 high profile activists that were detained in Bahrain for peacefully exercising their rights.
The EU director at Human Rights Watch, Lotte Leicht, warned of the consequence of not acting stating,
“If they don’t they will consign human rights to the margins of the EU’s foreign police, undermine their own credibility, and leave the activists they had promised to support suffering in prison.”
The European Parliament recently adopted a resolution that called on EU member states and the EU high representative to actively push for the release of imprisoned activists.