A human rights activist has complained to the Conservative party after a confrontation with Tory MP Bob Stewart, where he was told to “go back to Bahrain” and that he was “taking money off my country”.
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In video footage passed to the Guardian and filmed by Moosa Mohammed, Sayed Alwadaei, the director of the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy, confronts Stewart outside a reception hosted by the Bahraini embassy on Wednesday about a trip paid for by the Bahraini government ahead of its elections.
Stewart apologised for his remarks and said the activist had “persistently taunted me by saying I had taken money from Bahrain”.
He said the remarks were deeply offensive and that he had not taken money from the country.
“I am sorry if anyone thought I was being racist in any way. Honestly I was not. I wish now I had not been drawn by the taunts – a mistake – but I was, and I repeat, I apologise for that. The last thing I meant to be was racist as I have so many good Bahraini friends.”
Stewart said he defended Bahrain because he was stationed there in 1969 and said he had seen the country progress.
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