{"id":18467,"date":"2013-09-20T09:17:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T15:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=18467"},"modified":"2013-09-20T09:17:05","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T15:17:05","slug":"bahrain-doctor-under-threat-of-imprisonment-for-insulting-a-highly-insultable-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=18467","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain Doctor under threat of imprisonment for Insulting a highly insultable King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahrain: Senior Doctor Facing Trial on September 23 on Charges of Insulting the King<\/strong><br \/>\n20 September, 2013 &#8211; Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Saeed Al-Samahiji \u2013 Ophthalmologist \u2013 facing trial on September 23, 2013 on charges of insulting the king.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Al-Samahiji been summoned by the Criminal Investigation on Wednesday, September 18.<\/p>\n<p>On September 19, he was questioned by the public prosecutor and criminal investigations. He was released later.<\/p>\n<p>The Public Prosecution accused him of delivered a public speech on September 1, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights demands:<\/p>\n<p>1-Guarantee freedom of opinion and expression.<br \/>\n2-Dropping the charges relating to freedom of expression.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>April 2011: Dr. Saeed Al-Samahiji was arrested after the authorities suppressed Bahraini protesters in the Pearl Roundabout.<\/p>\n<p>September 29, 2011: The court sentenced him to 10 years imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>June 14, 2012: Court of Appeal reduced the verdict against him to one year imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>October 1, 2012: The Court of Cassation upheld the previous court\u2019s conviction and sentence against him.<\/p>\n<p>April 23, 2013: The Bahraini authorities released him after serving a one-year imprisonment. <a href=\"http:\/\/byshr.org\/?p=1521\" 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%3D18467&amp;text=Bahrain+Doctor+under+threat+of+imprisonment+for+Insulting+a+highly+insultable+King&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain: Senior Doctor Facing Trial on September 23 on Charges of Insulting the King 20 September, 2013 &#8211; Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights Dr. Saeed Al-Samahiji \u2013 Ophthalmologist \u2013 facing trial on September 23, 2013 on charges of insulting the king. Dr. Al-Samahiji been summoned by the Criminal Investigation on Wednesday, September 18. On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=18467#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\/18467"}],"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=18467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18468,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18467\/revisions\/18468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}