The House expresses its "strong disapproval" of the EU's lack of response to the ongoing crackdown in Bahrain and calls for sanctions against the individuals directly responsible for the human rights abuses and for restrictions on EU exports of surveillance technology, tear gas and crowd-control material.
The interim government, in power for three months, was eager to show the world that ordinary Egyptians solidly backed the army's July overthrow of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi and the ongoing crackdown against his Muslim Brotherhood.
"As Tobias Ellwood must surely realise, there's one very easy way for Saudi Arabia to gain a better human rights reputation – and that's by genuinely reversing the ongoing crackdown," said Amnesty International UK's head of policy and government affairs Allan Hogarth.
Bahrain's rulers have attributed the ongoing crackdown to this rising tide of hostility, which they deem as terrorism and claim to be an Iranian conspiracy.
Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director at Human Rights Watch, said in an email that the organization is "extremely concerned about the ongoing crackdown on the political opposition and on freedom of expression, which has created a climate of fear ahead of national elections".
Iranian film makers have been spared the imprisonments, beatings or show trials inflicted on many others in the ongoing crackdown.
There are suspicions that the raid could lead to ECRF being ensnared in the ongoing crackdown on NGOs in Egypt, reviving an infamous case from 2011 which accuses it of receiving illegal foreign funds.
"We don't want to turn into Iran," the newspaper editor Ibrahim Eissa told me, explaining why he felt the ongoing crackdown on the Brotherhood was necessary.
Meanwhile, British firms continue to profit from the ongoing crackdown, as the British government seemingly turns a blind eye to continuing abuses.
Passengers who spoke to VICE News expressed mixed feelings about both the vagoneros and the ongoing crackdown.
