{"id":17005,"date":"2013-04-05T16:16:25","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T22:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=17005"},"modified":"2013-04-05T16:16:25","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T22:16:25","slug":"bahrain-teens-convicted-on-trumped-up-charges-fill-empty-cells-left-behind-by-freed-medics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=17005","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain teens convicted on trumped up charges fill empty cells left behind by freed Medics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lawyer says 5 Bahrain teens sentenced up to 15 years in prison for attacking police<\/strong><br \/>\nBy The Associated Press &#8211; 4 April, 2013<\/p>\n<p>MANAMA, Bahrain &#8211; A defence lawyer in Bahrain says five teenagers are among a group sentenced up to 15 years in prison for attacks on police during anti-government demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>The convictions Thursday could raise fresh objections from rights groups that have already complained about Bahrain&#8217;s failure to use more lenient juvenile laws in trying other young suspects.<\/p>\n<p>The Sunni-ruled Gulf kingdom has faced more than two years of unrest as majority Shiites press for a greater political voice.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyer Zahra Masoud said the court sentenced three teens \u2014 16 and 17 years old \u2014 and one 20-year-old to sentences up to 15 years for attempting to attack a police car with homemade firebombs.<\/p>\n<p>Two others, aged 15 and 16, were sentenced in absentia.<\/p>\n<p>Bahrain is home of the U.S. Navy&#8217;s 5th Fleet.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprovince.com\/touch\/story.html?id=8195517\" 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%3D17005&amp;text=Bahrain+teens+convicted+on+trumped+up+charges+fill+empty+cells+left+behind+by+freed+Medics+&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyer says 5 Bahrain teens sentenced up to 15 years in prison for attacking police By The Associated Press &#8211; 4 April, 2013 MANAMA, Bahrain &#8211; A defence lawyer in Bahrain says five teenagers are among a group sentenced up to 15 years in prison for attacks on police during anti-government demonstrations. The convictions Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=17005#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\/17005"}],"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=17005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17006,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17005\/revisions\/17006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}