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    The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bahrain held a meeting with various groups to discuss implementing recommendations from a universal periodic review of human rights. The meeting aimed to get input ahead of Bahrain reporting on their progress to the UN Human Rights Council in September. The government of Bahrain believes in applying international best practices, including involving stakeholders in preparing human rights requirements. Separately, leaked documents showed that spyware created by Gamma Group International was used to spy on computers in the US, UK, Germany, Russia, Iran and Bahrain. It was unclear if governments or private entities conducted the surveillance, but the customer addresses suggested government intelligence and law enforcement groups as well as private companies. Previous leaks have shown repressive regimes using Gamma

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    The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bahrain held a meeting with various groups to discuss implementing recommendations from a universal periodic review of human rights. The meeting aimed to get input ahead of Bahrain reporting on their progress to the UN Human Rights Council in September. The government of Bahrain believes in applying international best practices, including involving stakeholders in preparing human rights requirements. Separately, leaked documents showed that spyware created by Gamma Group International was used to spy on computers in the US, UK, Germany, Russia, Iran and Bahrain. It was unclear if governments or private entities conducted the surveillance, but the customer addresses suggested government intelligence and law enforcement groups as well as private companies. Previous leaks have shown repressive regimes using Gamma

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    BAHRAIN MEDIA ROUNDUP

    11th August 2014


    Meeting on human
    rights periodic review
    recommendations
    held
    The Ministry of Foreign
    Affairs held today a
    consultative meeting on the
    implementation of the
    recommendations of the
    universal periodic review,
    attended by members of the
    High Coordinating
    Committee for Human
    Rights, representatives of
    the National Institution for
    Human rights and non-
    governmental
    organisations.
    The meeting is being held
    ahead of the Kingdom of
    Bahrain presenting its
    voluntary report on the
    recommendations of the
    universal periodic review to
    the Human Rights Council
    at its 27th session,
    scheduled to be held in
    Geneva in September
    2014.
    The meeting was held in
    line with the belief of the
    government of the Kingdom
    of Bahrain to apply the best
    international practices,
    which highlight the need to
    involve stakeholders in the
    preparation and setup of
    the international human
    rights requirements.
    Read More
    Leaked Docs Show
    Spyware Used to
    Snoop on U.S.
    Computers
    Software created by the
    controversial U.K. based
    Gamma Group International
    was used to spy on
    computers that appear to
    be located in the United
    States, the U.K., Germany,
    Russia, Iran and Bahrain,
    according to a leaked trove
    of documents analyzed by
    ProPublica.
    It's not clear whether the
    surveillance was conducted
    by governments or private
    entities. Customer email
    addresses in the collection
    appeared to belong to a
    German surveillance
    company, an independent
    consultant in Dubai, the
    Bosnian and Hungarian
    Intelligence services, a
    Dutch law enforcement
    ofcer and the Qatari
    government.
    The leaked les - which
    were posted online by
    hackers - are the latest in a
    series of revelations about
    how state actors including
    repressive regimes have
    used Gamma's software to
    spy on dissidents,
    journalists and activist
    groups.
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