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Rights groups slam Royal Jet over Bahrain extradition flight

Ali was extradited on January 24, despite an ECHR ruling he could not be sent home pending further investigation [Screen grab/Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain]

Emirati airline RoyalJet may have violated a European Court of Human Rights injunction and UN conventions on human rights by carrying out the “wrongful” extradition of a Bahraini dissident from Serbia, a group of human rights groups has said.

Ahmed Jaffar Mohammed Ali, 48, was extradited on January 24 under an international arrest request dating back to 2015, despite an ECHR ruling he could not be sent home pending further investigation.

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