Huddersfield University Bahrain degree 'providing torture hub with legitimacy'

Forty MPs sign letter urging closure of police master's course run in building where dissidents say they were tortured

Forty cross-party MPs and peers have urged the University of Huddersfield to close a master's course it runs at the Royal Academy of Policing in Bahrain, after allegations that political dissidents were being tortured in the same building.

The MPs, led by Ian Blackford, the Westminster leader of the Scottish National Party, have written to Huddersfield's vice-chancellor, Bob Cryan, saying the university is at risk of indirect implication in human rights abuse" by running an MSc in security science solely for officers of the academy.