{"id":13526,"date":"2012-10-24T09:01:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T16:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=13526"},"modified":"2012-10-24T09:03:10","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T16:03:10","slug":"al-khalifa-regime-maintains-fourth-day-of-collective-punshment-of-al-eker-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=13526","title":{"rendered":"al Khalifa regime maintains fourth day of collective punshment of Al-Eker Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Police attack anti-regime protesters near eastern Bahrain village<\/strong><br \/>\n24 October, 2012 &#8211; PressTV<\/p>\n<p>Saudi-backed Bahraini forces have attacked anti-regime protesters attempting to enter a besieged village in the east of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The security forces used toxic teargas canisters and rubber bullets to prevent the protesters from breaking the now-four-day-long siege of the village of Eker.<\/p>\n<p>Several protesters were arrested and dozens more injured in violent clashes with the regime forces.<\/p>\n<p>    Meanwhile, the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, a Cairo-based NGO devoted to promoting freedom of expression across the Middle East and North Africa, condemned the Manama regime\u2019s use of systematic violence against peaceful demonstrators.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, clashes erupted between regime forces and protesters near the village, during which at least three human rights activists, including Zainab al-Khawaja, the daughter of jailed opposition leader, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, were arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Khawaja said earlier that the protesters were taking food and medical supplies to the village\u2019s residents.<\/p>\n<p>Bahrain\u2019s revolution began in mid-February 2011 when oppression-weary public, inspired by popular revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, started holding massive demonstrations against the ruling regime.<\/p>\n<p>The Bahraini government promptly launched a brutal crackdown on the peaceful protests and called in Saudi-led Arab forces from neighboring Persian Gulf states to help crack down on the demonstrations.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2012\/10\/24\/268453\/police-attack-protesters-in-e-bahrain\/\" 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%3D13526&amp;text=al+Khalifa+regime+maintains+fourth+day+of+collective+punshment+of+Al-Eker+Village&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police attack anti-regime protesters near eastern Bahrain village 24 October, 2012 &#8211; PressTV Saudi-backed Bahraini forces have attacked anti-regime protesters attempting to enter a besieged village in the east of the country. The security forces used toxic teargas canisters and rubber bullets to prevent the protesters from breaking the now-four-day-long siege of the village of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=13526#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":[3614],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13526"}],"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=13526"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13528,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13526\/revisions\/13528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}