{"id":1514,"date":"2011-05-24T11:31:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T18:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=1514"},"modified":"2011-05-24T11:31:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T18:31:39","slug":"al-khalifa-working-closely-with-journalists-to-keep-the-truth-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=1514","title":{"rendered":"al Khalifa working closely with journalists to keep the truth out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Ali May 24, 2011 Category: Bahrain, Freedom, Journalism, Protests, Rule of Law<br \/>\nBahrain: Journalists Detained; Convictions Upheld<\/p>\n<p>Bahrani police have detained two local reporters working for foreign news outlets. Mazen Mahdi, who works for the German news agency DPA, said he and a reporter France 24 were called in for questioning on Sunday. Mahdi said he was handcuffed, blindfolded and beaten.<\/p>\n<p>Freedom House condemns a Bahraini appeals court decision to uphold the conviction of Ali Abdullah Hassan Alsingace and Abdul Aziz Abdul Redha Ibrahim Hussein, who were charged with killing two police officers during anti-government protests.  <a href=\"http:\/\/pomed.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/bahrain-journalists-detained-convictions-upheld.html\/\">&#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%3D1514&amp;text=al+Khalifa+working+closely+with+journalists+to+keep+the+truth+out&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ali May 24, 2011 Category: Bahrain, Freedom, Journalism, Protests, Rule of Law Bahrain: Journalists Detained; Convictions Upheld Bahrani police have detained two local reporters working for foreign news outlets. Mazen Mahdi, who works for the German news agency DPA, said he and a reporter France 24 were called in for questioning on Sunday. Mahdi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=1514#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[977],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514"}],"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=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}