{"id":18580,"date":"2013-10-08T16:50:39","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T22:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=18580"},"modified":"2013-10-08T16:50:39","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T22:50:39","slug":"sitras-unyeilding-protests-remain-steadfast-against-bloody-bahrain-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=18580","title":{"rendered":"Sitra&#8217;s Unyeilding Protests Remain Steadfast Against Bloody Bahrain Regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahrainis hold demos against Al Khalifa regime<\/strong><br \/>\n8 October, 2013 &#8211; PressTV<\/p>\n<p>Bahrainis have taken to the streets in the northeastern island of Sitra for the sixth consecutive day to denounce the Al Khalifa regime\u2019s unrelenting crackdown on pro-democracy protests.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, people from all walks of life attended marches in Sitra to demand reforms and an end to the decades-old rule of the Al Khalifa dynasty.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, a court in Bahrain sentenced nine anti-regime activists to life in prison after convicting them of being allegedly involved in an attack in November 2011 in the capital city of Manama.<\/p>\n<p>Four of the defendants, who were present at the court, had previously said that they were subjected to torture and mistreatment in solitary confinement.<\/p>\n<p>Five other defendants, tried in absentia, were handed additional 10-year jail terms for failing to hand themselves in. Life imprisonment term in Bahrain is 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>The verdict brought to 104 the number of pro-democracy protesters sentenced to lengthy jail terms in Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>Similar rallies were also held in the villages of Nuwaidrat and Samahich close to Sitra, where protesters expressed solidarity with the detainees and condemned the unjust sentences.<\/p>\n<p>The Bahraini uprising began in mid-February 2011. Protesters initially called for political reforms 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>Scores have been killed, many of them under torture while in custody, and thousands more detained since the popular uprising began in the Persian Gulf kingdom.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/10\/08\/328205\/bahrainis-stage-antiregime-protests\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n&#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%3D18580&amp;text=Sitra%27s+Unyeilding+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>Bahrainis hold demos against Al Khalifa regime 8 October, 2013 &#8211; PressTV Bahrainis have taken to the streets in the northeastern island of Sitra for the sixth consecutive day to denounce the Al Khalifa regime\u2019s unrelenting crackdown on pro-democracy protests. On Monday, people from all walks of life attended marches in Sitra to demand reforms <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=18580#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":[4136],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18580"}],"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=18580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18581,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18580\/revisions\/18581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}