{"id":10473,"date":"2012-06-25T06:42:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T13:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=10473"},"modified":"2012-06-25T06:42:51","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T13:42:51","slug":"bahrain-regime-intensitifes-efforts-to-choke-off-potential-funds-to-opposition-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=10473","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain Regime intensitifes efforts to &#8220;choke off&#8221; potential funds to opposition groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NGOs urged to comply with foreign funds rule in Bahrain<\/strong><br \/>\n22 June, 2012 -By Habib Toumi<\/p>\n<p>Bahrain\u2019s social development minister has urged all local societies, organisations, clubs and foundations to comply with the law regulation obtaining funds from abroad or sending money overseas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe law clearly specifies that sending or receiving funds from abroad requires the approval of the ministry, and while societies in general have upheld the rules, others have failed to report the transactions,\u201d Fatima Al Beloushi said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urge all NGOs to cooperate positively with the ministry on the laws regulating across the border funds and to obtain the required clearance from the ministry before they send or receive foreign funds,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Al Beloushi did not name the NGOs that did not comply with the 1989 rule that bars financial transactions with foreign entities without the ministry\u2019s approval, but said that the authorities have discovered cases of individual members receiving funds from abroad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe commitment of the adherents is not less significant than that of their societies, especially in the movement of suspicious funds across the borders,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Al Beloushi, the second woman minister to be given a portfolio in the government, said that the Bahraini authorities were tracking transfers as part of the policy to combat financing terrorism or facilitating money laundering.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.habibtoumi.com\/2012\/06\/22\/ngos-urged-to-comply-with-foreign-funds-rule-in-bahrain\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D10473&amp;text=Bahrain+Regime+intensitifes+efforts+to+%22choke+off%22+potential+funds+to+opposition+groups&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NGOs urged to comply with foreign funds rule in Bahrain 22 June, 2012 -By Habib Toumi Bahrain\u2019s social development minister has urged all local societies, organisations, clubs and foundations to comply with the law regulation obtaining funds from abroad or sending money overseas. \u201cThe law clearly specifies that sending or receiving funds from abroad requires <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=10473#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[638],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10474,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10473\/revisions\/10474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}