{"id":14701,"date":"2012-12-10T12:49:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T19:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=14701"},"modified":"2012-12-10T12:49:28","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T19:49:28","slug":"bahrain-where-acts-of-compassion-and-social-responsibility-will-land-you-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=14701","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain where &#8220;acts of compassion&#8221; and &#8220;social responsibility&#8221; will land you in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahraini activist jailed for &#8220;inciting hatred&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n10 December, 2012 &#8211; Al Akhbar<\/p>\n<p>A prominent Bahraini rights activist has been arrested on charges of \u201cinciting hatred against the regime\u201d after attempting to visit a hospital patient shot in the face by riot police, her friends announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Bahrain\u2019s public prosecution office on Monday told Zainab al-Khawaja that she will spend at least one week in prison pending an investigation over the charges after she was arrested over the weekend during a visit to Salmaniya Hospital to check up on a patient.<\/p>\n<p>A court had already sentenced Khawaja to one month in prison and fined her 100 Bahraini dinars ($265) earlier on Monday for participating in a non-sanctioned demonstration in Manama\u2019s Pearl Square in February.<\/p>\n<p>Khawaja, who is widely known by her Twitter pseudonym Angry Arabiya, faces three additional court verdicts this month over participation in anti-government protests in the wake of Bahrain&#8217;s massive uprising last year.<\/p>\n<p>She had previously served a one-month prison sentence in May and two-month term in September and October over charges related to her activism.<\/p>\n<p>She is the daughter of a leading human rights defender also behind bars. Her father, Hadi al-Khawaja, is serving a life sentence over charges of \u201cplotting against the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Khawaja\u2019s latest arrest in Bahrain\u2019s main hospital occurred after briefly visiting 20-year-old Aqeel Abdul Mohsen. Abdul Mohsen suffers a shattered jaw after police shot him during an anti-government rally last Wednesday in the town of Bani Jamra.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/english.al-akhbar.com\/content\/bahraini-activist-jailed-inciting-hatred?\" 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%3D14701&amp;text=Bahrain+where+%22acts+of+compassion%22+and+%22social+responsibility%22+will+land+you+in+prison&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahraini activist jailed for &#8220;inciting hatred&#8221; 10 December, 2012 &#8211; Al Akhbar A prominent Bahraini rights activist has been arrested on charges of \u201cinciting hatred against the regime\u201d after attempting to visit a hospital patient shot in the face by riot police, her friends announced Monday. Bahrain\u2019s public prosecution office on Monday told Zainab al-Khawaja <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=14701#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":[3790],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14701"}],"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=14701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14703,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14701\/revisions\/14703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}