European Parliament

Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI)

Exchange of Views on the Human Rights Situation on the Arab Peninsula

Tuesday, 19 February 2019 – 11h00 to 12h30

Room ASP – 1G3

Panelist Bios:

• Hatice Cengiz is the fiancée of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was assassinated in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in October 2018. #SaudiArabia

• Matthew Hedges is a British academic and researcher who was arrested in the United Arab Emirates on suspicion of spying on behalf of the British government. #UnitedArabEmirates

• Ali Alaswad is a former Member of Bahrain's parliament in who resigned in February 2011 in response to the Governments' crackdown on peaceful democracy protesters.  Mr Alaswad was sentenced, in absentia and along with several other members of the Al Wafeq political society, to life imprisonment by The Supreme Court of Cassation of Bahrain. #Bahrain

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Exchange of Views on the Human Rights Situation on the Arab Peninsula