{"id":17308,"date":"2013-05-06T11:36:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T17:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=17308"},"modified":"2013-05-06T11:37:52","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T17:37:52","slug":"bahrain-regime-issues-31-fifteen-year-jail-sentences-for-protestors-and-street-defenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=17308","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain Regime issues 31 fifteen year jail sentences for Protestors and Street Defenders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bahrain issues 31 fifteen-year jail terms over police attack<\/strong>
\n5 May, 2013 – TV-Novosti<\/p>\n

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Bahrain\u2019s court has sentenced 31 protesters to 15 years in prison for attacking a police patrol in a Shiite village, media reported. The accused claim they were coerced into confessing.<\/p>\n

The protesters were charged with attempted murder, setting a police car ablaze, protesting and possession of petrol bombs, The Daily Star Lebanon quoted one of the lawyers as saying. <\/p>\n

The whereabouts of 14 other defendants remain unknown.<\/p>\n

Another lawyer has confirmed that the accused have denied the charges against them and have been tortured into confessing.<\/p>\n

Police arrested the protesters in March after they allegedly attacked a patrol car with Molotov cocktails, injuring four officers in Bahrain\u2019s northwestern village of Sitra.<\/p>\n

Anti-government activist Mohammed Alsafy says the sentencing won’t affect future protests.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe protests have only grown larger in the past two years. We\u2019ve witnessed that the harsher the sentences are, the more anger it brings to the people and the more reasons it gives them to protest\u2026for now, we don\u2019t have any other choice but to protest,\u201d he told RT.<\/p>\n

Demonstrations \u2013 calling for democracy and an end to the monarchy \u2013 have been continuing in Bahrain for two years. Protests particularly intensified as the Gulf country was preparing to host a Formula 1 race on April 21. The protesters claimed the F1 event \u2013 which they labeled \u2018race for blood\u2019 \u2013 overshadowed the ruling Bahraini Sunni royal family\u2019s many human rights abuses and repression of the country\u2019s Shiite population.<\/p>\n

One of the best-known cases of the Bahraini regime cracking down on opposition was the arrest of prominent activist Nabeel Rajab, who openly criticized the regime, following an interview on RT for Julian Assange\u2019s show The World Tomorrow. In August 2012 Rajab was sentenced to three years in jail for \u2018participation in an illegal assembly\u2019 and \u2018calling for a march without prior notification\u2019.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the week, the kingdom \u2013 which is home of the US Navy\u2019s Fifth Fleet – canceled next month\u2019s planned visit by the United Nations’ torture expert, citing delays in \u2018ongoing national dialogue\u2019.<\/p>\n

Human rights groups have reported that at least 80 people have been killed and thousands arrested since the demonstrations began in 2011. …more<\/a><\/p>\n

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Bahrain issues 31 fifteen-year jail terms over police attack 5 May, 2013 – TV-Novosti Bahrain\u2019s court has sentenced 31 protesters to 15 years in prison for attacking a police patrol in a Shiite village, media reported. The accused claim they were coerced into confessing. The protesters were charged with attempted murder, setting a police car 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":[3119],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17308"}],"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=17308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17310,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17308\/revisions\/17310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}