{"id":14390,"date":"2012-11-28T14:48:06","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T21:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=14390"},"modified":"2012-11-28T14:48:06","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T21:48:06","slug":"bahrain-regime-abuses-children-with-judical-and-prison-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=14390","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain Regime Abuses Children with Judical and Prison System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Trial of two boys starts in Bahrain<\/strong><br \/>\nAmnesty International &#8211; 28 November, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Children with roses Young boys hold roses while sitting at the base of the Pearl Monument, Bahrain. \u00a9 Al Jazeera English<\/p>\n<p>Two 15 year old boys, Jehad Sadeq Aziz Salman and Ebrahim Ahmed Radi al-Moqdad were arrested with two adults during an anti-government protest in Manama, the capital of Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>They have since been held in detention and appeared for the first time before the High Criminal Court in Manama, the capital of Bahrain, on October 16, together with Sadeq Jalil Ibrahim al-Haiki.<\/p>\n<p>Their charges under articles of the Bahrain Penal Code and the 2006 anti-terrorist law include \u2018\u2019intending to murder\u201d, \u201cburning a police car\u201d, \u201cillegal gathering and rioting\u201d, \u201cthrowing Molotov cocktails\u201d, and \u201cattempting to steal a police car\u201d. One of the defendants told the court he had been tortured in detention.  Their lawyers are still waiting for the results of a forensic examination and their case has been adjourned to 3 December. All five are still held in the Dry Dock prison in Manama.<\/p>\n<p>The age of criminal responsibility in Bahraini law is 15 years old. However, as Jehad Sadeq Aziz Salman and Ebrahim Ahmed Radi al-Moqdad are under 18, they are children and should be treated in accordance with the rules and principles of juvenile justice.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.amnesty.org.uk\/blogs\/childrens-human-rights-network-blog\/action-trial-two-boys-starts-bahrain\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;more<\/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%3D14390&amp;text=Bahrain+Regime+Abuses+Children+with+Judical+and+Prison+System+&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trial of two boys starts in Bahrain Amnesty International &#8211; 28 November, 2012 Children with roses Young boys hold roses while sitting at the base of the Pearl Monument, Bahrain. \u00a9 Al Jazeera English Two 15 year old boys, Jehad Sadeq Aziz Salman and Ebrahim Ahmed Radi al-Moqdad were arrested with two adults during an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=14390#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":[1499],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14390"}],"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=14390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14391,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14390\/revisions\/14391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}