{"id":18671,"date":"2013-10-16T09:05:33","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T15:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=18671"},"modified":"2013-10-16T10:44:26","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T16:44:26","slug":"bahrain-regimes-human-rigths-charade-becoming-evident-to-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=18671","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain Regime&#8217;s Human Rights Charade becoming Evident to All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UK demands Bahrain commitment to human rights<\/strong><br \/>\n16 October, 2013 &#8211; PressTV<\/p>\n<p>British Foreign Office Minister for Middle East Affairs Hugh Robertson has called on the al-Khalifa regime in Bahrain to fulfil their obligations concerning human rights.<\/p>\n<p>Robertson, who took the position on October 7, also said Britain will seriously follow all cases of human rights abuse in Bahrain, including mistreatment of detainees.<\/p>\n<p>The comment came after the death of Bahraini Shia activist Yousef Al-Nashmi who died on Friday due to what the Bahraini non-governmental organization Bahrain Center for Human Rights said was denial of medical treatment and torture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe BCHR is gravely concerned that Al-Nashmi, like Mohammed Mushaima, is the victim torture and denial of adequate medical care causing death. Prisoners in Bahrain are systematically denied adequate medical care,\u201d the organization said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe continuation of the current violations against all prisoners in Bahrain may lead to future loss of lives,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>Bahrain has recently faced scathing criticism internationally for its treatment of pro-democracy protesters and prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>During the UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva back in September, 47 governments issued a joint statement on the matter which accompanied a damning resolution by the European Parliament and a public reproach from the UN Commissioner for Human Rights.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the British ambassador in Geneva said at the time that the Bahraini government had misrepresented a private meeting he held with the Bahraini minister for human rights by claiming London backs the al-Khalifa\u2019s human rights record. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/10\/16\/329619\/uk-bahrain-must-respect-human-rights\/\" 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%3D18671&amp;text=Bahrain+Regime%27s+Human+Rights+Charade+becoming+Evident+to+All&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK demands Bahrain commitment to human rights 16 October, 2013 &#8211; PressTV British Foreign Office Minister for Middle East Affairs Hugh Robertson has called on the al-Khalifa regime in Bahrain to fulfil their obligations concerning human rights. Robertson, who took the position on October 7, also said Britain will seriously follow all cases of human <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=18671#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":[3747],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18671"}],"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=18671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18674,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18671\/revisions\/18674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}