{"id":13805,"date":"2012-11-05T11:11:45","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T18:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=13805"},"modified":"2012-11-05T11:11:45","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T18:11:45","slug":"bombings-in-bahrain-this-incident-is-strange-why-would-anyone-target-workers-human-rights-defender-al-muhafda-in-lock-up-for-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=13805","title":{"rendered":"Bombings in Bahrain: \u201cThis incident is strange \u2013 why would anyone target workers?\u201d, Human Rights defender al-Muhafda in lock-up for protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bomb Blast in Bahrain, al-Muhafda Detention Extended<\/strong><br \/>\n5 November, 2012 &#8211; POMED<\/p>\n<p>Two foreign workers were killed in the capitol Manama after five explosions went of November 5. Bahrain\u2019s Prime Minister described the acts as \u201cheinous\u201d crimes, while the country\u2019s top police officer called them \u201cacts of terror.\u201d Matar Matar, a representative for the opposition al-Wefaq party, expressed doubt that opposition activists were behind the attacks. \u201cThis incident is strange \u2013 why would anyone target workers?\u201d Matar said. Michael Stephens, researcher with the Royal United Services Institute in Qatar, highlighted \u201cincreasing evidence that extreme anti-government elements have become radicalized as a result of the slow pace of economic reforms, and political stagnation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Bahrain extended the detention of human rights activist Sayed Yousif al-Muhafda for participating in a demonstration. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, in collaboration with International Federation for Human Rights and the World Organization Against Torture released a letter urging the release of al-Muhafda. Additionally, two activists were sentenced after posting remarks on Twitter \u201cdefaming\u201d King Hamad bin Isa al-Thani. One defendant was given a one-month jail term, the other was given a four-month sentence, and a third defendant was sentenced to six months last week on the same charges.  <a href=\"http:\/\/pomed.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/bomb-blast-in-bahrain-al-muhafda-detention-extended.html\/\" 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%3D13805&amp;text=Bombings+in+Bahrain%3A+%E2%80%9CThis+incident+is+strange+%E2%80%93+why+would+anyone+target+workers%3F%E2%80%9D%2C+Human+Rights+defender+al-Muhafda+in+lock-up+for+protest&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bomb Blast in Bahrain, al-Muhafda Detention Extended 5 November, 2012 &#8211; POMED Two foreign workers were killed in the capitol Manama after five explosions went of November 5. Bahrain\u2019s Prime Minister described the acts as \u201cheinous\u201d crimes, while the country\u2019s top police officer called them \u201cacts of terror.\u201d Matar Matar, a representative for the opposition <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=13805#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":[3665],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13805"}],"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=13805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13806,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13805\/revisions\/13806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}