{"id":12255,"date":"2012-09-04T07:32:09","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T14:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=12255"},"modified":"2012-09-04T07:32:09","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T14:32:09","slug":"hamad-keeps-political-prisoners-hostage-bahrain-courts-of-injustice-uphold-convictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=12255","title":{"rendered":"Hamad keeps political prisoners hostage &#8211; Bahrain Courts of Injustice uphold convictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahrain: Appeals Court Upholds Life Imprisonment for Opposition Leaders<\/strong><br \/>\n4 September, 2012 &#8211; by Amira Al Hussaini &#8211; Global Voices<\/p>\n<p>Bahrain&#8217;s High Court of Appeals upheld jail sentences against 20 opposition figures accused of plotting to overthrow the regime today [September 4, 2012]. While international human rights organisations describes them as \u201cprisoners of conscience,\u201d Bahraini authorities and the local Press call them \u201cterrorists\u201d for their role in anti-government protests, which started in Bahrain on February 14, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Eight of them have been slapped with life in prison; the rest have been given jail sentences ranging from five to 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters called the trial a sham, rejecting its ruling and pledging to continue with anti-government demonstrations. <a href=\"http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\/2012\/09\/04\/bahrain-appeals-court-upholds-life-imprisonment-for-opposition-leaders\/\" 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%3D12255&amp;text=Hamad+keeps+political+prisoners+hostage+-+Bahrain+Courts+of+Injustice+uphold+convictions&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain: Appeals Court Upholds Life Imprisonment for Opposition Leaders 4 September, 2012 &#8211; by Amira Al Hussaini &#8211; Global Voices Bahrain&#8217;s High Court of Appeals upheld jail sentences against 20 opposition figures accused of plotting to overthrow the regime today [September 4, 2012]. While international human rights organisations describes them as \u201cprisoners of conscience,\u201d Bahraini <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=12255#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":[2314],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12255"}],"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=12255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12257,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12255\/revisions\/12257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}