{"id":17432,"date":"2013-05-20T07:34:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T13:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=17432"},"modified":"2013-05-20T07:34:18","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T13:34:18","slug":"remembering-karim-fakhrawi-intensified-collective-punishment-torture-abuse-continues-in-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=17432","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Karim Fakhrawi &#8211; Intensified Collective Punishment, Torture, Abuse, Continues in Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/FakhrawiWife.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/FakhrawiWife-e1360710088110.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\" \" width=\"425\" height=\"418\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16243\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Wife of martyr Kareem Fakhrawi joined the protest in Manama earlier today, 12 February, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Karim Fakhrawi<\/strong><br \/>\nAl-Wasat -April 12, 2011, in Manama, Bahrain<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Karim-Fakhraw1i.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Karim-Fakhraw1i.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Karim Fakhraw1i \" width=\"180\" height=\"223\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16244\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fakhrawi, founder and board member of Al-Wasat, the country&#8217;s premier independent daily, died in state custody a week after he was detained, according to news reports. Human rights defenders told CPJ that Fakhrawi had gone to a police station on April 5 to complain that authorities were about to bulldoze his house.<\/p>\n<p>Bahrain&#8217;s official news agency said on Twitter that Fakhrawi died of kidney failure. Photographs published online, however, showed a body identified as that of Fakhrawi with extensive cuts and bruises.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/kareemkilled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/kareemkilled.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\" \" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/kareemkilled.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/kareemkilled-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The journalist&#8217;s arrest came amid sweeping civil unrest in Bahrain and a government crackdown on independent reporting. In early April, the government accused Al-Wasat of &#8220;deliberate news fabrication and falsification,&#8221; said it would file criminal charges against three of the paper&#8217;s senior editors, and deported two of its senior staffers.<\/p>\n<p>Fakhrawi was one of numerous investors in Al-Wasat, local journalists told CPJ. He was also a book publisher, the owner of one of Bahrain&#8217;s biggest bookstores, and a member of Al-Wefaq, Bahrain&#8217;s chief opposition party.<\/p>\n<p>Fakhrawi&#8217;s death was the second media fatality in Bahrain in less than a week, both occurring in government detention facilities. In the two decades prior to that, no journalists had died in relation to their work in Bahrain, CPJ research shows.  <a href=\"http:\/\/cpj.org\/killed\/2011\/karim-fakhrawi.php\" 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%3D17432&amp;text=Remembering+Karim+Fakhrawi+-+Intensified+Collective+Punishment%2C+Torture%2C+Abuse%2C+Continues+in+Bahrain&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wife of martyr Kareem Fakhrawi joined the protest in Manama earlier today, 12 February, 2013 Karim Fakhrawi Al-Wasat -April 12, 2011, in Manama, Bahrain Fakhrawi, founder and board member of Al-Wasat, the country&#8217;s premier independent daily, died in state custody a week after he was detained, according to news reports. Human rights defenders told CPJ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=17432#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":[3898],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17432"}],"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=17432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17434,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17432\/revisions\/17434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}