{"id":18898,"date":"2013-11-05T11:44:40","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T18:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=18898"},"modified":"2013-11-05T11:44:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T18:44:40","slug":"breaking-the-walls-of-silence-bahrain-center-for-human-rights-2013-rafto-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=18898","title":{"rendered":"Breaking the Walls of Silence &#8211; Bahrain Center for Human Rights, 2013 Rafto Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The 2013 Rafto Prize to Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) &#8211; the fight for &#8220;inconvenient\u201d human rights in the Gulf<\/strong><br \/>\n24 October, 2013<\/p>\n<p>The 2013 Rafto Prize is awarded to the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) for their long and courageous fight for fundamental human rights such as freedom of speech and freedom of association in Bahrain. By awarding the Rafto Prize to BCHR, we turn the spotlight on the systematic violations of human rights in a region where abuse is too often met with silence from western governments. <a href=\"http:\/\/rafto.no\/page\/821\/Rafto_Prize_Laureates\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2OrIeuAFndU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pKYkA8Ha_7E\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/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%3D18898&amp;text=Breaking+the+Walls+of+Silence+-+Bahrain+Center+for+Human+Rights%2C+2013+Rafto+Prize&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2013 Rafto Prize to Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) &#8211; the fight for &#8220;inconvenient\u201d human rights in the Gulf 24 October, 2013 The 2013 Rafto Prize is awarded to the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) for their long and courageous fight for fundamental human rights such as freedom of speech and freedom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=18898#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":[582],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18898"}],"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=18898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18899,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18898\/revisions\/18899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}