A SCOTTISH MP has spoken of his horror at how Britain is paying £1.8 million a year to fund policing institutions in Bahrain where prisoners are sentenced to death on the basis of confessions that have been beaten out of them.
Alistair Carmichael, LibDem spokesman on Home Affairs and Justice, was speaking at the launch of a new report which calls for a halt to payments by the Gulf Strategy Fund (GSF) to security forces in the Gulf state where 26 men are on death row.
Many were convicted solely on the basis of confessions extracted through torture methods including electric shocks, beatings, sexual assaults and hanging by the arms for days.
