{"id":19850,"date":"2014-02-22T10:06:47","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T17:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=19850"},"modified":"2014-02-22T10:06:47","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T17:06:47","slug":"bahrain-continues-us-backed-crackdown-with-systematic-arrests-of-democracy-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=19850","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain continues US backed crackdown with systematic arrests of Democracy leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Five Bahraini chanters arrested following mass march<\/strong><br \/>\n22 February, 2014<\/p>\n<p>SHAFAQNA (International Shia News Association) &#8211; Five Bahrainis have been arrested for leading the gigantic mass prodemocracy march that took place last Saturday afternoon, February 15th. Around 300, 000 Bahrainis participated in the march demanding democratic transition and an end to the current tyrannical rule in Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>Al Wefaq said the arrests contradicts basic humanitarian principles and reflects the type of doctrine that is controlling the political situation. \u201cPunishing citizens for expressing their opinions is a war on freedom of expression and peaceful political activism\u201d, Al Wefaq added. It also pointed out that these measures reflect the regime\u2019s preference of a security solution over a political one, thereby, further complicating the situation. <a href=\"http:\/\/bahrain.shafaqna.com\/human-rights\/item\/2197-five-bahraini-chanters-arrested-following-mass-march.html\" 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%3D19850&amp;text=Bahrain+continues+US+backed+crackdown+with+systematic+arrests+of+Democracy+leaders&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five Bahraini chanters arrested following mass march 22 February, 2014 SHAFAQNA (International Shia News Association) &#8211; Five Bahrainis have been arrested for leading the gigantic mass prodemocracy march that took place last Saturday afternoon, February 15th. Around 300, 000 Bahrainis participated in the march demanding democratic transition and an end to the current tyrannical rule <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=19850#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":[1443],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19850"}],"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=19850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19851,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19850\/revisions\/19851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}