{"id":1796,"date":"2011-06-09T09:35:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T16:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=1796"},"modified":"2011-06-09T09:47:55","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T16:47:55","slug":"obama-hides-meeting-with-top-bahraini-leader%e2%80%94and-mutes-criticism-of-ongoing-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=1796","title":{"rendered":"Obama Hides Meeting with Top Bahraini Leader\u2014And Mutes Criticism of Ongoing Crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/embed_show_v2\/300\/2011\/6\/9\/story\/obama_hides_meeting_with_top_bahraini\"><\/script><br \/>\nObama Hides Meeting with Top Bahraini Leader\u2014And Mutes Criticism of Ongoing Crackdown<br \/>\nBahrain_crackdown<\/p>\n<p>Amidst an intensifying crackdown on anti-government protesters in the tiny Gulf island kingdom of Bahrain, President Obama met Tuesday with Crown Prince Salman bin Isa al-Khalifa, a visit that was not announced beforehand. We speak with Nabeel Rajab, president of Bahrain\u2019s Center for Human Rights, based in Manama. &#8220;On the ground, we don\u2019t see anything, any signal, that makes us optimistic that the government has the willingness to go for a dialogue with the opposition and to listen to the grievances and the demands of the people,&#8221; says Rajab, noting that soldiers from Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Bahrain continue to arrest protesters and the doctors treating those injured during pro-democracy demonstrations. [includes rush transcript]<\/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%3D1796&amp;text=Obama+Hides+Meeting+with+Top+Bahraini+Leader%E2%80%94And+Mutes+Criticism+of+Ongoing+Crackdown&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama Hides Meeting with Top Bahraini Leader\u2014And Mutes Criticism of Ongoing Crackdown Bahrain_crackdown Amidst an intensifying crackdown on anti-government protesters in the tiny Gulf island kingdom of Bahrain, President Obama met Tuesday with Crown Prince Salman bin Isa al-Khalifa, a visit that was not announced beforehand. We speak with Nabeel Rajab, president of Bahrain\u2019s Center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=1796#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[1186],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796"}],"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=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}