26 April,2011 07:30 AM IST | | Agencies
The Crown Prince of Bahrain has said he will not attend Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding on Friday because of ongoing unrest in the Gulf kingdom. Prince Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa said it was with "deep regret" that he had reached his "considered decision". He said he had hoped the situation in Bahrain would have improved so he could attend and not "overshadow" the event.
Human rights campaigners had petitioned against his attendance because of his government's treatment of protesters. Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchellu00a0 said, "The invitations are a massive misjudgement by the monarch. They show the Queen is out of touch with the humanitarian values of modern, liberal Britain. She's putting royalty before human rights."
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