Syria (and Beyond) Live Coverage: The UN Tries Again With Assad
1618 GMT: Bahrain EA's John Horne reports:
A group of Human Rights organisations have written to US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton "asking her to suspend all US military aid to the government of Bahrain because of its human rights violations".
The letter brings attention to the US Leahy Law (Section 620M of the Foreign Assistance Act) which states that:
No assistance shall be furnished under this Act or the Arms Export Control Act to any unit of the security forces of a foreign country if the Secretary of State has credible information that such unit has committed a gross violation of human rights.
The NGO's cite a series of reports which they argue constitute "credible information", adding that "attacks by the police and other security forces on unarmed, non-violent, pro-democracy activists rise to the level of 'gross human rights violations,' particularly so when the attacks resulted in death.
The letter continues: