Protest over award to Bahraini prime minister

DEMONSTRATORS gathered outside one of the country’s leading medical school yesterday to protest against the granting of an academic award to the prime minister of Bahrain.

Nationals of the Middle-Eastern country living in Ireland protested outside the entrance to the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, on Dublin's Stephen's Green where Prime Minister Sheikh Khalifa Bin Salman Al-Khalifa was receiving an honorary fellowship from the institution.

"The invitation of Sheikh Khalifa Bin Salman Al-Khalifa to the Republic is an insult to the people of this country and the democratic values it strives to uphold," said Abdulhadi, a spokesman for the protestors.