{"id":18566,"date":"2013-10-07T15:10:33","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T21:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=18566"},"modified":"2013-10-07T15:10:33","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T21:10:33","slug":"bilad-qadeem-protests-remain-steadfast-against-bloody-bahrain-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=18566","title":{"rendered":"Bilad Qadeem Protests Remain Steadfast Against Bloody Bahrain Regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahraini protests hold anti-regime demo in Bilad Qadeem<\/strong><br \/>\n6 October, 2013 &#8211; ABNA<\/p>\n<p>(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) &#8211; Demonstrators chanted slogans against the ruling Al Khalifa family during a protest in the town of Bilad al-Qadeem. They said King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa must relinquish power. <\/p>\n<p>The Bahraini uprising against Al Khalifa began in early 2011. Scores of people have been killed and hundreds arrested in the regime crackdown ever since. <\/p>\n<p>In addition, the human rights record of the Bahraini regime has come under scrutiny over its handling of the protests. <\/p>\n<p>Recently, a group of 50 Shia activists were sentenced to up to 15 years in prison after being convicted of forming an opposition group. <\/p>\n<p>Amnesty International has condemned the imprisonment of the activists in Bahrain, describing the move as \u201cappalling.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s appalling what passes for \u2018justice\u2019 today in Bahrain,\u201d said Philip Luther, Amnesty\u2019s director for the Middle East and North Africa. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe authorities simply slap the label \u2018terrorist\u2019 on defendants, and then subject them to all manner of violations to end up with a \u2018confession\u2019,\u201d he stated.  <a href=\"http:\/\/abna.ir\/data.asp?lang=3&#038;Id=470052\" 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%3D18566&amp;text=Bilad+Qadeem+Protests+Remain+Steadfast+Against+Bloody+Bahrain+Regime&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahraini protests hold anti-regime demo in Bilad Qadeem 6 October, 2013 &#8211; ABNA (Ahlul Bayt News Agency) &#8211; Demonstrators chanted slogans against the ruling Al Khalifa family during a protest in the town of Bilad al-Qadeem. They said King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa must relinquish power. The Bahraini uprising against Al Khalifa began in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=18566#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":[708],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18566"}],"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=18566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18567,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18566\/revisions\/18567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}