{"id":15550,"date":"2013-01-12T11:44:05","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T18:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=15550"},"modified":"2013-01-12T11:44:05","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T18:44:05","slug":"thousands-hit-streets-across-bahrain-to-protest-unjust-imprisonment-of-opposition-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=15550","title":{"rendered":"Thousands hit Streets Across Bahrain to Protest unjust imprisonment of Opposition Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thousands of Bahrain Arab Spring Protesters Denounce Government<\/strong><br \/>\n12 January, 2013 &#8211; Democracy Chronicles<\/p>\n<p>Bahraini security forces keep watch during clashes with Shiite Muslim protesters in the village of Malikiyah on January 7, 2013. Thousands of Shiites have demonstrated near Manama in a new protest against an appeals court upholding jail terms for 13 activists on charges of plotting to overthrow Bahrain&#8217;s monarchy, witnesses said.<\/p>\n<p>Bahraini security forces keep watch during clashes with Shiite Muslim protesters in the village of Malikiyah on January 7, 2013. Thousands of Shiites have demonstrated near Manama in a new protest against an appeals court upholding jail terms for 13 activists on charges of plotting to overthrow Bahrain&#8217;s monarchy, witnesses said.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of Shiites demonstrated near Manama on Saturday in a new protest against an appeals court upholding jail terms for 13 activists on charges of plotting to overthrow Bahrain&#8217;s monarchy, witnesses said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will not resign ourselves to it&#8221; and &#8220;we will not forget the prisoners,&#8221; shouted demonstrators during the peaceful protest that was monitored by a heavy security presence. Some carried photos of those convicted.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the Court of Cassation upheld sentences ranging from between five years and life in prison against the 13, who took part in 2011 anti-government protests.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracychronicles.com\/thousands-of-bahrain-arab-spring-protesters-denounce-government\/\" 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%3D15550&amp;text=Thousands+hit+Streets+Across+Bahrain+to+Protest+unjust+imprisonment+of+Opposition+Leaders&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of Bahrain Arab Spring Protesters Denounce Government 12 January, 2013 &#8211; Democracy Chronicles Bahraini security forces keep watch during clashes with Shiite Muslim protesters in the village of Malikiyah on January 7, 2013. Thousands of Shiites have demonstrated near Manama in a new protest against an appeals court upholding jail terms for 13 activists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=15550#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":[1815],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15550"}],"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=15550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15552,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15550\/revisions\/15552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}