{"id":18747,"date":"2013-10-22T11:14:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T17:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=18747"},"modified":"2013-10-22T11:14:59","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T17:14:59","slug":"stop-the-shipment-no-more-cs-gas-to-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=18747","title":{"rendered":"STOP THE SHIPMENT &#8211; NO MORE CS GAS TO BAHRAIN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/carousel-stop.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/carousel-stop-e1382462042903.jpg\" alt=\"carousel-stop\" width=\"425\" height=\"213\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18748\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bahrain\u2019s Ministry of Interior is planning to import 1.6 million tear gas canisters and 90,000 tear gas grenades, according to a leaked document, published today by research and advocacy group Bahrain Watch.  The document \u2014 apparently a tender issued by the Ministry of Interior\u2019s Purchasing Directorate \u2014 shows that Bahrain\u2019s security forces are stockpiling massive amounts of tear gas, despite serious concerns of international NGOs and the United Nations Human Rights Council.  These groups have called Bahrain\u2019s use of tear gas \u201cunnecessary and indiscriminate\u201d, and \u201clethal\u201d.  This planned new shipment will supply Bahrain with more tear gas canisters than the entire population of the country. <a href=\"http:\/\/menasolidaritynetwork.com\/2013\/10\/17\/bahrain-stop-the-tear-gas-shipment\/\" 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%3D18747&amp;text=STOP+THE+SHIPMENT+-+NO+MORE+CS+GAS+TO+BAHRAIN&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain\u2019s Ministry of Interior is planning to import 1.6 million tear gas canisters and 90,000 tear gas grenades, according to a leaked document, published today by research and advocacy group Bahrain Watch. The document \u2014 apparently a tender issued by the Ministry of Interior\u2019s Purchasing Directorate \u2014 shows that Bahrain\u2019s security forces are stockpiling massive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=18747#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":[2763],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18747"}],"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=18747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18749,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18747\/revisions\/18749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}