{"id":20394,"date":"2014-04-20T10:42:28","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T16:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=20394"},"modified":"2014-04-20T10:42:28","modified_gmt":"2014-04-20T16:42:28","slug":"bahrain-police-launch-brutal-response-to-protest-denoucing-regime-murder-of-abdul-aziz-al-abbar-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=20394","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain Police launch brutal response to Protest denoucing Regime Murder of Abdul-Aziz al-Abbar, 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahrain Troops Clash with Anti-Regime Protesters Near Manama<\/strong><br \/>\n20 April, 2014 &#8211; Tasnim News<\/p>\n<p>TEHRAN (Tasnim) \u2014 The Bahraini regime forces launched a fresh round of crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators protesting the killing of a 27-year-old protester, local media reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The protest rally, which was held in Sanabes Village, a few miles from the capital Manama on Saturday, turned violent after the Al Khalifah regime forces fired tear gas and shotgun pellets to disperse the angry protesters.<\/p>\n<p>Abdul-Aziz al-Abbar, 27, is the latest victim of the regime&#8217;s deadly crackdown aimed at suppressing voice of dissent.<\/p>\n<p>He died on Friday after 55 days in coma from injuries he suffered during a rally held in late February in Sa\u2019ar, a residential area west of Manama.<\/p>\n<p>Rights campaigners have said that Abbar was hit by a teargas canister and shotgun pellets fired by regime forces at a funeral procession.<\/p>\n<p>One pellet penetrated Abbar&#8217;s brain and another his eye and he was in a coma in hospital until his death, his family said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have refused to receive the body until we get an (official) report that Abdul-Aziz died from shotgun pellets,&#8221; Sayed Hassan, Abbar&#8217;s cousin, told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Bahrain&#8217;s Health Ministry, in its report on the death of Abbar, has said that he died from brain damage and blood flow problems, without specifying what caused this.<\/p>\n<p>Scores of anti-regime protesters have lost their lives and many others put behind the bar in a Saudi-backed military crackdown on pro-democracy rallies in Bahrain since 2011.<\/p>\n<p>All the same, anti-regime protests are held almost on a daily basis across the tiny Persian Gulf monarchy in defiance of the tough security clampdown.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tasnimnews.com\/English\/Home\/Single\/343948\" 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%3D20394&amp;text=Bahrain+Police+launch+brutal+response+to+Protest+denoucing+Regime+Murder+of+Abdul-Aziz+al-Abbar%2C+27&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain Troops Clash with Anti-Regime Protesters Near Manama 20 April, 2014 &#8211; Tasnim News TEHRAN (Tasnim) \u2014 The Bahraini regime forces launched a fresh round of crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators protesting the killing of a 27-year-old protester, local media reported on Sunday. The protest rally, which was held in Sanabes Village, a few miles from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=20394#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":[4321],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20394"}],"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=20394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20395,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20394\/revisions\/20395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}