{"id":15474,"date":"2013-01-09T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=15474"},"modified":"2013-01-09T07:45:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T14:45:00","slug":"bahrains-king-hamad-named-humanitarian-personality-of-the-year-gets-accolades-for-consolidating-the-pillars-of-democracy-and-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=15474","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain\u2019s King Hamad named &#8220;Humanitarian Personality of the Year&#8221; gets accolades for  \u201cconsolidating the pillars of democracy and freedom\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/humanitarianOTY.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/humanitarianOTY.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\" \" width=\"423\" height=\"565\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/humanitarianOTY.jpg 423w, https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/humanitarianOTY-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bahrain king \u2018awarded for democracy\u2019<\/strong><br \/>\n9 January, 2012 &#8211; Hurriyet Daily News<\/p>\n<p>Bahrain\u2019s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa was named Humanitarian Personality of the Year with the absolute majority of votes in a recent poll conducted by the Kuwaiti daily newspaper Al-Sharq, according to Bahrain news agency.<\/p>\n<p>The participants hailed the king for his role in \u201cconsolidating the pillars of democracy and freedom\u201d and \u201csuccessful tackling of all hostile plots intended to tamper with Bahrain\u2019s independence and security and the freedom of its people,\u201d said the agency.<\/p>\n<p>The government is criticized for putting down an uprising with martial law in March 2011. Thousands were arrested and military trials conducted. Bahrain says it is now instituting a range of reforms.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/bahrain-king-awarded-for-democracy.aspx?\" 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%3D15474&amp;text=Bahrain%E2%80%99s+King+Hamad+named+%22Humanitarian+Personality+of+the+Year%22+gets+accolades+for++%E2%80%9Cconsolidating+the+pillars+of+democracy+and+freedom%E2%80%9D&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain king \u2018awarded for democracy\u2019 9 January, 2012 &#8211; Hurriyet Daily News Bahrain\u2019s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa was named Humanitarian Personality of the Year with the absolute majority of votes in a recent poll conducted by the Kuwaiti daily newspaper Al-Sharq, according to Bahrain news agency. The participants hailed the king for his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=15474#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":[3900],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15474"}],"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=15474"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15477,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15474\/revisions\/15477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}