{"id":12006,"date":"2012-08-22T07:12:23","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T14:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=12006"},"modified":"2012-08-22T07:13:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T14:13:07","slug":"bahrain-secuirty-forces-desecrate-funeral-arrest-and-abuse-mourners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=12006","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain &#8216;Secuirty Forces&#8217; desecrate funeral, arrest and abuse mourners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahraini regime forces arrest 8 mourners at funeral<\/strong><br \/>\nShia Post &#8211; 22 August, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Bahraini Shia Muslim women mourn during the funeral of 16-year-old Husam al-Haddad in Muharraq, August 18, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi-backed Bahraini regime forces have arrested at least eight people in an attack on a funeral ceremony in the country\u2019s third largest city, Muharraq. <\/p>\n<p>The people had gathered in the city on Tuesday to mourn the death of a young Bahraini man who was beaten to death by the regime forces.<\/p>\n<p>Sixteen-year-old Husam al-Haddad was killed on August 17 during an attack by Bahraini forces on a peaceful demonstration in the city.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the regime forces set several checkpoints on the roads leading to Muharraq and tried to prevent mourners from visiting Haddad\u2019s grave.<\/p>\n<p>They used tear gas to disperse the protesters and arrested a number of them.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-regime protests continue in Bahrain despite heavy-handed crackdown by regime forces.<\/p>\n<p>Scores of people have been killed by Bahraini regime forces since a popular uprising erupted against the ruling Al Khalifa family in February 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters hold King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa responsible for the deaths of demonstrators during the uprising.<\/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%3D12006&amp;text=Bahrain+%27Secuirty+Forces%27+desecrate+funeral%2C+arrest+and+abuse+mourners&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahraini regime forces arrest 8 mourners at funeral Shia Post &#8211; 22 August, 2012 Bahraini Shia Muslim women mourn during the funeral of 16-year-old Husam al-Haddad in Muharraq, August 18, 2012. Saudi-backed Bahraini regime forces have arrested at least eight people in an attack on a funeral ceremony in the country\u2019s third largest city, Muharraq. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=12006#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":[3400],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12006"}],"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=12006"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12008,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12006\/revisions\/12008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}