{"id":12825,"date":"2012-09-24T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=12825"},"modified":"2012-09-24T07:00:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T14:00:39","slug":"sustained-protests-in-bahrain-chip-away-at-faltering-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=12825","title":{"rendered":"Sustained Protests in Bahrain chip away at faltering regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahrainis demand release of political prisoners<\/strong><br \/>\n24 ShiaPost &#8211; 24 September, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Anti-regime protesters have held new demonstrations across Bahrain to express their solidarity with political prisoners and demand the downfall of the Al Khalifa regime, Press TV reports.<\/p>\n<p>Chanting anti-regime slogans, demonstrators took to the streets in several villages and cities, including Sitra near the capital, Manama, on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters expressed solidarity with political prisoners in Bahrain, female political detainees in particular, and demanded that they be freed immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Scores of people have been killed and many others arrested by regime forces since the revolution started in Bahrain last year.<\/p>\n<p>The protests have been continuing since then despite the heavy-handed crackdown by the regime. Saudi Arabia has also been helping the Manama regime crush the popular uprising.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters hold King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa responsible for the death of demonstrators during the uprising.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.shiapost.com\/?p=6686\" 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%3D12825&amp;text=Sustained+Protests+in+Bahrain+chip+away+at+faltering+regime&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrainis demand release of political prisoners 24 ShiaPost &#8211; 24 September, 2012 Anti-regime protesters have held new demonstrations across Bahrain to express their solidarity with political prisoners and demand the downfall of the Al Khalifa regime, Press TV reports. Chanting anti-regime slogans, demonstrators took to the streets in several villages and cities, including Sitra near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=12825#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":[708],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12825"}],"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=12825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12827,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12825\/revisions\/12827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}