{"id":19572,"date":"2014-01-06T09:49:24","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T16:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=19572"},"modified":"2014-01-06T09:49:24","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T16:49:24","slug":"bahrain-moi-continues-attacks-on-shia-mosques-in-attempt-to-agitate-sectarian-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=19572","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain MOI continues attacks on Shia Mosques in attempt to agitate Sectarian tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahraini riot police attack on Imam Redha Mosque<\/strong><br \/>\n5 January, 2014 &#8211; Shia Post<\/p>\n<p>Security forces in Bahrain have attacked on a Shia Mosque and Hussainia in Sanabis village on Sunday evening, The Shia Post reported.<\/p>\n<p>The extensive and persistent use of tear gas against civilians by Bahrain\u2019s security forces since over two years was unprecedented in the 100-year history of its use throughout the world.<\/p>\n<p>The Bahraini government has resorted to the policy of \u201ccollective punishment\u201d of the nation by regular crack downs on the people who peacefully protest against government\u2019s discriminatory policies.<\/p>\n<p> Bahrainis have been staging demonstrations since mid-February 2011, calling 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 the regime\u2019s 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 state.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters say they will continue holding anti-regime demonstrations until their demands for the establishment of a democratically-elected government and an end to the rights violations are met.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.shiapost.com\/2014\/01\/05\/bahraini-riot-police-attack-on-imam-redha-mosque\/\" 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%3D19572&amp;text=Bahrain+MOI+continues+attacks+on+Shia+Mosques+in+attempt+to+agitate+Sectarian+tensions&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahraini riot police attack on Imam Redha Mosque 5 January, 2014 &#8211; Shia Post Security forces in Bahrain have attacked on a Shia Mosque and Hussainia in Sanabis village on Sunday evening, The Shia Post reported. The extensive and persistent use of tear gas against civilians by Bahrain\u2019s security forces since over two years was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=19572#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":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19572"}],"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=19572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19573,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19572\/revisions\/19573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}