Huddersfield university said the prince’s trip had helped to strengthen its links with Bahrain’s interior ministry

The Duke of York went to Bahrain to inaugurate a Huddersfield University course taught at a centre used for the torture of political dissidents, The Times can reveal.

The Royal Academy of Policing has served as a hub for the interrogation and coerced confessions of Bahraini opposition activists since 2015, according to accounts gathered from torture survivors. The victims include three former prisoners now seeking asylum in Britain and ten whose accounts of torture, including serious sexual assault, were smuggled from jail.

Prince Andrew inaugurated the course in April 2018 as chancellor of Huddersfield University, a role he was forced to relinquish in November after his BBC Newsnight interview over his relationship with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Prince Andrew met Bahrain’s interior minister on his visit to inaugurate the Huddersfield university master’s course BAHRAIN MINISTRY OF INTERIOR

The university said the prince’s trip,