{"id":16580,"date":"2013-03-13T10:29:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T17:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=16580"},"modified":"2013-03-13T10:29:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T17:29:04","slug":"hajji-majid-imprisoned-for-crimes-of-free-speech-and-peaceful-demonstration-in-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=16580","title":{"rendered":"Hajji Majid Imprisoned for Crimes of Free Speech and Peaceful Demonstration in Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahraini Al-Wefaq association: Imprisoning \u201cHajji Majid\u201d retaliation for his patriotism<\/strong><br \/>\n8 March, 2013 &#8211; Moqawama<\/p>\n<p>Bahraini opposition al-Wefaq Association described the imprisonment of Hajj Abdelmajid Abdullah, 63, also known as \u201cHajji Majid\u201d on grounds of freedom of speech and peaceful demonstration an unjust and vengeful sentence for patriotic activities.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, al-Wefaq reiterated, \u201cThese cruel sentences highlight what the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay mentioned of the courts in Bahrain representing political oppression and a fake image of justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hajji Majid\u2019s arrest comes days after he starred in the artistic production \u201cMawtini\u201d (My Country) that dealt with the Arab Revolutions, including the Bahraini revolution. The production showed a scene where illegal oppression and crackdowns by security forces were being enforced on Bahraini citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The Hajj had played the role of a man who was beaten, arrested, and tortured more than once by security forces and abducted from his own house with his children and grandchildren, as the hymn of the well-known \u201cMawtini\u201d (My Country) played in the background.   <a href=\"http:\/\/realisticbird.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/08\/bahraini-al-wefaq-association-imprisoning-hajji-majid-retaliation-for-his-patriotism\/\" 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%3D16580&amp;text=Hajji+Majid+Imprisoned+for+Crimes+of+Free+Speech+and+Peaceful+Demonstration+in+Bahrain&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahraini Al-Wefaq association: Imprisoning \u201cHajji Majid\u201d retaliation for his patriotism 8 March, 2013 &#8211; Moqawama Bahraini opposition al-Wefaq Association described the imprisonment of Hajj Abdelmajid Abdullah, 63, also known as \u201cHajji Majid\u201d on grounds of freedom of speech and peaceful demonstration an unjust and vengeful sentence for patriotic activities. In a statement, al-Wefaq reiterated, \u201cThese <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=16580#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":[1662],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16580"}],"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=16580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16582,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16580\/revisions\/16582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}