{"id":18654,"date":"2013-10-15T16:49:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T22:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=18654"},"modified":"2013-10-15T16:49:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T22:49:07","slug":"prisoner-dies-lacking-health-care-following-torture-weeks-after-bahrain-passing-marks-on-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=18654","title":{"rendered":"Prisoner dies lacking health care, following torture, weeks after Bahrain &#8220;Passing Marks&#8221; on Prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahrain prison care questioned after inmate death<\/strong><br \/>\n12 October, 2013 <\/p>\n<p>MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) \u2014 The lawyer of a Bahraini prisoner who died after being transferred to a hospital is claiming authorities waited too long to provide medical treatment and ignored his deteriorating health, claims officials have denied.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute is likely to bring calls for greater scrutiny on prison conditions in the Gulf nation.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyer Zainab Abdulaziz said officials did not properly care for Yousef Ali al-Nashmi, arrested in August as part of crackdowns following a wave of protests. She said al-Nashmi was in a coma when he was finally hospitalized Sept. 23. He died Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Bahrain\u2019s public prosecutor\u2019s office said early Saturday that al-Nashmi died of HIV-linked problems and had been scheduled to be released.<\/p>\n<p>Sunni-ruled Bahrain, home to the U.S. Navy\u2019s 5th Fleet, has been gripped by nonstop unrest since early 2011.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/world\/middle-east\/2013\/10\/12\/bahrain-prison-care-questioned-after-inmate-death\/iGqJwBd0Ab8fu7ontQnUHN\/story.html\" 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%3D18654&amp;text=Prisoner+dies+lacking+health+care%2C+following+torture%2C+weeks+after+Bahrain+%22Passing+Marks%22+on+Prisons&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain prison care questioned after inmate death 12 October, 2013 MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) \u2014 The lawyer of a Bahraini prisoner who died after being transferred to a hospital is claiming authorities waited too long to provide medical treatment and ignored his deteriorating health, claims officials have denied. The dispute is likely to bring calls for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=18654#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":[2013],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18654"}],"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=18654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18655,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18654\/revisions\/18655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}