{"id":17373,"date":"2013-05-14T08:24:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T14:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=17373"},"modified":"2013-05-14T08:29:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T14:29:26","slug":"state-fo-torture-bahrain-majority-insists-on-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=17373","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;State of Torture&#8217;, Bahrain Majority Insists on Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u2018Capital of torture\u2019: Bahraini Shiite majority demands democratic rule<\/strong><br \/>\n11 Maym 2013 &#8211; RT<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of anti-government activists flocked to the streets of the Shiite village of Daih in Bahrain to protest against the torture of victims arrested by the minority Sunni-ruled monarchy.<\/p>\n<p>The frustrated mob held up signs that read: \u201cManama, capital of torture,\u201d and waved the national flag.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTorture is a practice rooted in the security agencies,\u201d in Bahrain, the main Shiite opposition bloc Al-Wefaq said in a statement. It added that these practice were \u201cembedded in the security doctrine &#8211; corrupt and hostile to the citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The organization also highlighted the rift between Sunni-ruled monarchy and Shiites saying \u201ca political majority demanding a democratic transition and a hard core dictatorship that refuses any change and respond to the popular will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration comes just days after the start of the international campaign under the title \u201cBahrain capital of torture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Bahrain Forum for Human Rights in Beirut announced the details of the international campaign against torture in prisons on the island.<\/p>\n<p>It also accused the authorities of arresting 120 people during the period between 16 &#8211; April 22.<\/p>\n<p>Human rights delegates condemned the use of force on citizens and the media blackout on the repression.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Wednesday, the parliament in Bahrain was presented with a bill that would impose further restrictions on demonstrations. The new law would require organizers to submit a warranty check of more than $50,000 before holding a rally. It would also allow any resident to block a petition.  <a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/thousands-march-torture-bahrain-129\/\" 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%3D17373&amp;text=%27State+of+Torture%27%2C+Bahrain+Majority+Insists+on+Democracy&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Capital of torture\u2019: Bahraini Shiite majority demands democratic rule 11 Maym 2013 &#8211; RT Thousands of anti-government activists flocked to the streets of the Shiite village of Daih in Bahrain to protest against the torture of victims arrested by the minority Sunni-ruled monarchy. The frustrated mob held up signs that read: \u201cManama, capital of torture,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=17373#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":[4077],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17373"}],"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=17373"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17375,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17373\/revisions\/17375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}