{"id":13217,"date":"2012-10-16T12:32:32","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T19:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=13217"},"modified":"2012-10-16T12:32:32","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T19:32:32","slug":"rajab-appeal-postponed-bahrain-youth-society-for-human-rights-president-mohammed-al-maskati-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=13217","title":{"rendered":"Rajab Appeal Postponed, Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights President, Mohammed al-Maskati Arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lawyer: Bahrain court postpones activist&#8217;s appeal<\/strong><br \/>\n16 October, 2012 &#8211; CBSNEWS<\/p>\n<p>MANAMA, Bahrain \u2014 A defense lawyer in Bahrain says a court has prolonged the appeal of an imprisoned human rights activist by ordering another hearing next month.<\/p>\n<p>Nabeel Rajab is challenging his three-year prison sentence for allegedly encouraging illegal protests and violence in the strife-wracked Gulf nation, which is home to the U.S. Navy 5th Fleet.<\/p>\n<p>He is among the most high-profile prisoners in Bahrain&#8217;s crackdowns. The country has been hit by near-daily unrest since February 2011, when its Shiite majority began an uprising demanding a greater political voice in the Sunni-ruled nation.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney Mohammed al-Jishi says the court on Tuesday set Rajab&#8217;s next hearing for Nov. 8.<\/p>\n<p>Also Tuesday, authorities detained another rights campaigner, Mohammed al-Maskati, the president of the Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-501713_162-57533088\/lawyer-bahrain-court-postpones-activists-appeal\/\" 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%3D13217&amp;text=Rajab+Appeal+Postponed%2C+Bahrain+Youth+Society+for+Human+Rights+President%2C+Mohammed+al-Maskati+Arrested&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyer: Bahrain court postpones activist&#8217;s appeal 16 October, 2012 &#8211; CBSNEWS MANAMA, Bahrain \u2014 A defense lawyer in Bahrain says a court has prolonged the appeal of an imprisoned human rights activist by ordering another hearing next month. Nabeel Rajab is challenging his three-year prison sentence for allegedly encouraging illegal protests and violence in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=13217#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":[2341],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13217"}],"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=13217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13218,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13217\/revisions\/13218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}