{"id":15044,"date":"2012-12-20T08:32:40","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T15:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=15044"},"modified":"2012-12-20T08:32:40","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T15:32:40","slug":"said-yousif-al-muhafdah-jailed-for-being-a-witness-to-crimes-by-the-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=15044","title":{"rendered":"Said Yousif al-Muhafdah, jailed for being a witness to crimes by the regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/yousifcornered.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/yousifcornered-e1356017205485.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\" \" width=\"425\" height=\"318\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15045\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bahrain Jails Activist for Covering Protests on Twitter<\/strong><br \/>\nBy LIAM STACK and ROBERT MACKEY &#8211; 19 Decemebr, 2012 &#8211; NYT The Lede<\/p>\n<p>Bahrain jailed a leading rights activist for posts on Twitter documenting a protest on Monday in the capital, Manama, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The activist, Said Yousif al-Muhafdah, is the center\u2019s head of documentation and the second member of the group to be jailed for using the social network in the past six months. A photograph of Mr. Muhafdah\u2019s arrest was later posted on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>In July, Bahrain sentenced Nabeel Rajab, the rights center\u2019s president, to three months in prison for joking on Twitter that supporters of Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Sulman al-Khalifa, who was appointed to his post in 1971, cheered him only after being bribed.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Muhafdah was arrested for reporting on Monday\u2019s protest as it came under attack from Bahrain\u2019s security forces. A look at his @SAIDYOUSIF Twitter feed shows that he covered the protest in detail, transmitting photos of protesters engulfed in tear gas and displaying gory injuries from shotgun pellets to his 77,000 followers.  <a href=\"http:\/\/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/19\/bahrain-jails-activist-for-covering-protests-on-twitter\/\" 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%3D15044&amp;text=Said+Yousif+al-Muhafdah%2C+jailed+for+being+a+witness+to+crimes+by+the+regime&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain Jails Activist for Covering Protests on Twitter By LIAM STACK and ROBERT MACKEY &#8211; 19 Decemebr, 2012 &#8211; NYT The Lede Bahrain jailed a leading rights activist for posts on Twitter documenting a protest on Monday in the capital, Manama, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights said in a statement. The activist, Said Yousif <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=15044#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":[3843],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15044"}],"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=15044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15047,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15044\/revisions\/15047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}