{"id":11394,"date":"2012-08-02T06:05:30","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T13:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=11394"},"modified":"2012-08-02T06:05:30","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T13:05:30","slug":"after-18-months-of-murderous-abuse-bahrain-crown-prince-orders-restraint-to-allay-threat-to-us-uk-weapon-sales-to-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=11394","title":{"rendered":"After 18+ months of murderous abuse, Bahrain Crown Prince orders &#8216;restraint&#8217; to allay threat to US-UK Weapon sales to Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahraini Crown Prince orders police to use restraint with protesters<\/strong><br \/>\n2 August, 2012 &#8211; Daly News Egypt<\/p>\n<p>The move came after Bahraini authorities banned public demonstrations by Bahraini political association<\/p>\n<p>The Bahraini crown prince ordered security forces on Tuesday to show more restraint while dealing with Bahraini protesters, according to state-run Bahraini news agency BNA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe king\u2019s instructions are clear and decisive, and today I direct them to you again as orders to be implemented, and these are to respect the constitution and the law and (ensure) they are not violated in any form,\u201d Crown Prince Salman was reported by BNA as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The crown prince also stressed the importance of avoiding the use of force against protesters \u201cunless all alternative methods to the security approach are exhausted,\u201d as well as warning against discriminatory action toward citizens of different sects.<\/p>\n<p>The move came after Bahraini authorities banned public demonstrations by Bahraini political associations.<\/p>\n<p>Al Wefaq National Islamic Society \u2013 the biggest opposition group in Bahrain \u2013 launched a report on its website on Wednesday, stating more than 240 civilians were arrested during the month of July.<\/p>\n<p>The report also noted that some 100 civilians were wounded by authorities \u2013 apart from those who remain unknown to the group \u2013 and that almost 200 homes have been raided by security forces.   <a href=\"http:\/\/thedailynewsegypt.com\/2012\/08\/02\/bahraini-crown-prince-orders-police-to-use-restraint-with-protesters\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;source<\/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%3D11394&amp;text=After+18%2B+months+of+murderous+abuse%2C+Bahrain+Crown+Prince+orders+%27restraint%27+to+allay+threat+to+US-UK+Weapon+sales+to+Kingdom&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahraini Crown Prince orders police to use restraint with protesters 2 August, 2012 &#8211; Daly News Egypt The move came after Bahraini authorities banned public demonstrations by Bahraini political association The Bahraini crown prince ordered security forces on Tuesday to show more restraint while dealing with Bahraini protesters, according to state-run Bahraini news agency BNA. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=11394#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":[3298],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11394"}],"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=11394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11395,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11394\/revisions\/11395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}