{"id":12723,"date":"2012-09-19T07:28:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T14:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=12723"},"modified":"2012-09-19T07:28:43","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T14:28:43","slug":"betrayal-of-human-rights-and-the-pretense-of-reform-the-kingdom-of-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=12723","title":{"rendered":"Betrayal of Human Rights and the Pretense of Reform The Kingdom of Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bahrain reforms insufficient: rights groups<\/strong>
\n19 September, 2012 – Bahrain Freedom Movement<\/p>\n

Manama: Bahrain has failed to fulfil promises of reform since last year\u2019s unrest in the kingdom, denying even the basic rights to most of its people, the International Federation for Human Rights has said.<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite the King\u2019s promises, the reforms remain widely insufficient,\u201d the Paris-based FIDH, a group of human rights organisations, said in its latest report<\/p>\n

The report is based on more than a year of investigations into government behaviours and policies in the aftermath of the mass demonstrations.<\/p>\n

King Hamad Bin Eisa Al Khalifa promised change in line with the recommendations of an independent commission of inquiry into the unrest, but has been repeatedly accused by international rights groups of failing to fulfil the most significant reforms.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile certain efforts have been made by Bahraini authorities to address many of the [ commission\u2019s] recommendations, the report concludes that the government continues to deny a majority of Bahraini\u2019s fundamental rights on a daily basis,\u201d said FIDH President Souhayr Belhassen.<\/p>\n

She further accused authorities of using \u201cgovernmental structures to attack or control the population rather than protect it, creating an atmosphere of mistrust and fear among the population\u201d.<\/p>\n

FIDH further called on the Bahraini authorities to release all current rights prisoners and \u201cto support the establishment of an international monitoring mechanism to be set-up… to monitor the implementation of the recommendations\u201d of the independent commission of inquiry. …more<\/a><\/p>\n

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Bahrain reforms insufficient: rights groups 19 September, 2012 – Bahrain Freedom Movement Manama: Bahrain has failed to fulfil promises of reform since last year\u2019s unrest in the kingdom, denying even the basic rights to most of its people, the International Federation for Human Rights has said. \u201cDespite the King\u2019s promises, the reforms remain widely insufficient,\u201d 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":[2139],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12723"}],"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=12723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12725,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12723\/revisions\/12725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}