{"id":14327,"date":"2012-11-26T11:58:48","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T18:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=14327"},"modified":"2012-11-26T11:58:48","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T18:58:48","slug":"bahrain-al-khalifa-regime-set-up-bassiouni-fact-finding-mission-to-exonerate-murderers-not-to-reform-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=14327","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain al Khalifa regime set-up Bassiouni &#8220;fact-finding&#8221; mission to exonerate Murderers not to reform abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Human Rights Activist: Al-Khalifa Seeking to Exonerate Murderers<\/strong><br \/>\n26 November, 2012 &#8211; FARS<\/p>\n<p>TEHRAN (FNA)- The Al-Khalifa regime set up the fact-fining committee led by Mohammed Sharif Basyouni in a bid to exonerate the agents who have killed protesters, a member of Bahrain&#8217;s Center for Human Rights said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The regime&#8217;s refusal to implement the contents of Basyouni committee&#8217;s report formed at the order of the (Bahraini) king indicates that the goal pursued by establishing this committee was not settlement of the country&#8217;s crisis, but to exonerate the agents involved with the massacre and clampdown on people,&#8221; Fallah al-Rabie told FNA on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He also blamed the Bahraini regime for escalation of crisis in the country, and said the regime still continues &#8220;torturing&#8221; prisoners, &#8220;clamping down&#8221; on popular protests and &#8220;revoking citizenship&#8221; of legal and political activists.<\/p>\n<p>Some international organizations, including the Amnesty International and the UN, have blamed the Al-Khalifa regime for killing and detaining activists and failing to deliver on its promise of reforms.<\/p>\n<p>Security forces have even intensified arrests since the start of the holy month of Muharram.<\/p>\n<p>Muharram, a religious month is commemorated by Muslims across the world annually. The holy month which started on Friday bans people from killing, arresting, committing any wrong doing or crime.<\/p>\n<p>The forces have also insulted the religious slogans chanted by people during the holy month.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-government protesters have been holding peaceful demonstrations across Bahrain since mid-February 2011, calling for an end to the Al Khalifa dynasty&#8217;s over-40-year rule, end of discrimination, establishment of justice and a democratically-elected government as well as freedom of detained protesters.<\/p>\n<p>Violence against the defenseless people escalated after a Saudi-led conglomerate of police, security and military forces from the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) member states &#8211; Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar &#8211; were dispatched to the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom on March 13, 2011, to help Manama crack down on peaceful protestors.<\/p>\n<p>So far, tens of people have been killed, hundreds have gone missing and thousands of others have been injured. <a href=\"http:\/\/english.farsnews.com\/newstext.php?nn=9107122032\" 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%3D14327&amp;text=Bahrain+al+Khalifa+regime+set-up+Bassiouni+%22fact-finding%22+mission+to+exonerate+Murderers+not+to+reform+abuse&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human Rights Activist: Al-Khalifa Seeking to Exonerate Murderers 26 November, 2012 &#8211; FARS TEHRAN (FNA)- The Al-Khalifa regime set up the fact-fining committee led by Mohammed Sharif Basyouni in a bid to exonerate the agents who have killed protesters, a member of Bahrain&#8217;s Center for Human Rights said. &#8220;The regime&#8217;s refusal to implement the contents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=14327#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":[1959],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14327"}],"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=14327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14328,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14327\/revisions\/14328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}