{"id":15583,"date":"2013-01-14T14:45:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T21:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=15583"},"modified":"2013-01-14T14:45:33","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T21:45:33","slug":"calls-go-international-for-help-freeing-children-held-by-rapacious-police-force-in-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=15583","title":{"rendered":"Calls go International for help freeing Children held by Rapacious Police Force in Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahrain: 13 year old children in detention for third week and others on trial under \u201cterrorism law\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n23 December, 2012 &#8211; Bahrain Center for Human Rights<\/p>\n<p>The Bahrain Center for Human Rights is gravely concerned about the continuous violations against children\u2019s rights in Bahrain. The authorities\u2019 arrest, detention and ill treatment of children is on-going, with children as young as 13 getting arrested. In a recent case, security forces held children aged 6 to 16 on a school bus. While the Bahraini authorities\u2019 actions are a clear violation of the Convention of the Right of the Child, Bahrain was awarded a seat in the United Nations committee of the Right of the Child.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/children-in-detention.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/children-in-detention-e1358199746964.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"  \" width=\"425\" height=\"401\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15584\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLeft to Right: Mohammed Al Shawaikh, Hussain Al Saqai, Hussain Alhawaj<\/p>\n<p>On 7 Dec 2012, Hussain Ali Al Saqqai (13 years old), Mohammed Abdulghani Al Shawaikh (13 years old) and Hussain Abduljalil Alhawaj (15 years old) were arrested from Manama following clashes between protesters and police, although to-date no evidence has been presented of them being part of it. According to information received by the BCHR, the children reportedly beaten and kicked in the head at the time of arrest. They were accused of attacking a police patrol and were taken to the public prosecution office. Mohammed Al Shawaikh and Hussain Al Saqqai were taken to the Juvenile prison in Isa Town while Hussain was detained for fifteen days at the Dry Dock prison with adults. Mohammed Al Shawaikh and Hussain Al Saqqai\u2019s detention was extended twice to this day, as they are to be held in detention until December 27, 2012.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bahrainrights.org\/en\/node\/5581\" target=\"_blank\"> &#8230;more<\/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%3D15583&amp;text=Calls+go+International+for+help+freeing+Children+held+by+Rapacious+Police+Force+in+Bahrain&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain: 13 year old children in detention for third week and others on trial under \u201cterrorism law\u201d 23 December, 2012 &#8211; Bahrain Center for Human Rights The Bahrain Center for Human Rights is gravely concerned about the continuous violations against children\u2019s rights in Bahrain. The authorities\u2019 arrest, detention and ill treatment of children is on-going, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=15583#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":[3912],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15583"}],"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=15583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15586,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15583\/revisions\/15586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}