{"id":16397,"date":"2013-02-20T16:22:22","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T23:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=16397"},"modified":"2013-02-20T16:22:22","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T23:22:22","slug":"another-day-of-brutality-for-freedom-seekers-in-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=16397","title":{"rendered":"Another day of brutality for Freedom seekers in Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahraini regime forces attack anti-regime protesters near capital<\/strong><br \/>\n20 February, 2013 &#8211; PressTV<\/p>\n<p>Saudi-backed Bahraini forces have launched another attack on a peaceful demonstration held near the capital to call for justice and democracy.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Bahraini troops once again attacked to disperse the protesters who were chanting anti-regime slogans in the northern village of Sanabis, located in the suburbs of the capital, Manama.<\/p>\n<p>No casualties have so far been reported due to the assault.<\/p>\n<p>In a similar move on Tuesday, Bahraini regime forces fired tear gas and stun grenades to break up the gathering at a memorial service in the northern village of Daih. The demonstration was staged to pay tribute to a teenage boy, who was killed by security guards during an anti-regime protest.<\/p>\n<p>The 16-year-old boy was shot in the stomach by the riot police during the demonstrations marking the second anniversary of the revolution in the Persian Gulf state on February 14.<\/p>\n<p>Bahrainis have been staging demonstrations since mid-February 2011, demanding political reform and a constitutional monarchy, a demand that later changed to an outright call for the ouster of the ruling Al Khalifa family following its brutal crackdown on popular protests.<\/p>\n<p>Scores have been killed, many of them under torture while in custody, and thousands more detained since the popular uprising in Bahrain began.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters say they will continue holding anti-regime demonstrations until their demand for the establishment of a democratically-elected government and an end to rights violations are met. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.com\/detail\/2013\/02\/20\/290007\/bahraini-police-attack-antiregime-demo\/\" 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%3D16397&amp;text=Another+day+of+brutality+for+Freedom+seekers+in+Bahrain&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahraini regime forces attack anti-regime protesters near capital 20 February, 2013 &#8211; PressTV Saudi-backed Bahraini forces have launched another attack on a peaceful demonstration held near the capital to call for justice and democracy. On Wednesday, Bahraini troops once again attacked to disperse the protesters who were chanting anti-regime slogans in the northern village of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=16397#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":[2583],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16397"}],"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=16397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16399,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16397\/revisions\/16399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}