A HUMAN rights group has voiced concern amid claims that three executed prisoners in Bahrain were held in a jail whose staff received training from a Belfast-based firm.
The three men were executed by firing squad on Sunday.
While it is not known where the execution took place, the men, Ali Al-Singace (21), Abbas Al-Samea (27) and Sami Mushaima (42), were detained at Jau Prison in Bahrain before they were killed.
They were convicted of killing three police officers in a bomb attack in March 2014 and the executions took place a week after their death sentences were upheld by a high court.
All three men had claimed they made confessions after being tortured.
Human rights group Reprieve last night claimed staff at the prison have been trained by Northern Ireland Co-operation Overseas (NI-CO).
NI-CO is wholly owned by Invest NI and carries out work with the Bahraini security forces.
In the past Bahrain prison officials have visited Maghaberry Prison in Co Antrim.
Reprieve director Maya Foa last night branded the executions, the first in Bahrain since 2010, as an “outrage".
"It is nothing short of an outrage - and a disgraceful breach of international law - that Bahrain has gone ahead with these executions.”
“The death sentences handed to Ali, Sami and Abbas were based on 'confessions' extracted through torture, and the trial an utter sham.”
No-one from Invest NI or NI-CO could be contacted for comment.
