{"id":18353,"date":"2013-09-13T21:16:58","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T03:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=18353"},"modified":"2013-09-14T05:52:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T11:52:32","slug":"bahrain-marshal-law-legalised-by-decree-threatens-to-crush-all-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=18353","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain Martial Law, &#8220;legalised by decree&#8221;, threatens to crush all Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Manama regime threatens participants in Friday protest<\/strong><br \/>\n13 September, 2013 &#8211; PressTV<\/p>\n<p>Bahrain\u2019s Interior Ministry has threatened to take legal action against anyone who takes part in an anti-regime demonstration scheduled to be held on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLegal action will be taken against any participant in the rally planned by political associations, for flouting the law,\u201d said Bahrain\u2019s Public Security Chief Tariq Hassan Al-Hassan on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Hassan further said the Bahraini Interior Ministry has banned the Friday protest, claiming that the demonstration has nothing to do with exercising the freedom of expression, as guaranteed by law.<\/p>\n<p>The anti-regime gathering is due to be staged between Bahrain\u2019s northern villages of Daih and Bilad al-Qadeem.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Bahrain\u2019s main opposition group al-Wefaq has criticized the interior ministry decision, calling on Bahrainis for a massive turnout at the protest.<\/p>\n<p>The Manama regime\u2019s human rights record has come under scrutiny over its handling of anti-regime protests that erupted across the country in early 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Bahrainis demanded political reform and a constitutional monarchy, a demand that later changed to an outright call for the ouster of the ruling Al Khalifa family following its brutal crackdown on popular protests.<\/p>\n<p>Manama also called in Saudi-led Arab forces from neighboring states. Scores of people have been killed and hundreds of others arrested in the clampdown.<\/p>\n<p>On September 9, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay told the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) that she was frustrated with reports of human rights violations in Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe deep polarization of society and the harsh clampdown on human rights defenders and peaceful protesters continue to make a durable solution more difficult to secure,\u201d Pillay said. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/09\/13\/323647\/bahrain-threatens-antiregime-protesters\/\" 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%3D18353&amp;text=Bahrain+Martial+Law%2C+%22legalised+by+decree%22%2C+threatens+to+crush+all+Protest&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manama regime threatens participants in Friday protest 13 September, 2013 &#8211; PressTV Bahrain\u2019s Interior Ministry has threatened to take legal action against anyone who takes part in an anti-regime demonstration scheduled to be held on Friday. \u201cLegal action will be taken against any participant in the rally planned by political associations, for flouting the law,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=18353#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":[1662],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18353"}],"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=18353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18362,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18353\/revisions\/18362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}