{"id":15193,"date":"2012-12-30T11:16:06","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T18:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=15193"},"modified":"2012-12-30T11:16:06","modified_gmt":"2012-12-30T18:16:06","slug":"karim-fakhrawi-founder-of-al-wasat-tortured-to-death-by-regime-just-over-18-months-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=15193","title":{"rendered":"Karim Fakhrawi Founder of Al-wasat tortured to death by Regime just over 18 months ago"},"content":{"rendered":"

Karim Fakhrawi Founder of Al-wasat tortured to death by Regime just over 18 months ago<\/strong>
\n12 April, 2011<\/strong> – CPJ<\/p>\n

Fakhrawi, founder and board member of Al-Wasat, the country’s premier independent daily, died in state custody a week after he was detained, according to news reports. Human rights defenders told CPJ that Fakhrawi had gone to a police station on April 5 to complain that authorities were about to bulldoze his house.<\/p>\n

Bahrain’s official news agency said on Twitter that Fakhrawi died of kidney failure. Photographs published online, however, showed a body identified as that of Fakhrawi with extensive cuts and bruises.<\/p>\n

The journalist’s arrest came amid sweeping civil unrest in Bahrain and a government crackdown on independent reporting. In early April, the government accused Al-Wasat of “deliberate news fabrication and falsification,” said it would file criminal charges against three of the paper’s senior editors, and deported two of its senior staffers.<\/p>\n

Fakhrawi was one of numerous investors in Al-Wasat, local journalists told CPJ. He was also a book publisher, the owner of one of Bahrain’s biggest bookstores, and a member of Al-Wefaq, Bahrain’s chief opposition party.<\/p>\n

Fakhrawi’s death was the second media fatality in Bahrain in less than a week, both occurring in government detention facilities. In the two decades prior to that, no journalists had died in relation to their work in Bahrain, CPJ research shows. …source<\/a><\/p>\n

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