The Foreign Office has been accused of blocking a prominent Bahraini human rights activist from being granted British citizenship – with the wait for a decision now stretching more than three years.
Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, a director at the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy, has indefinite leave to remain in the UK, having been granted political asylum here in 2012 after taking part in pro-democracy protests in the kingdom. However, Mr Alwadaei has been facing a long delay to his citizenship application, which should usually take six months to process.
