{"id":20533,"date":"2014-08-18T15:15:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T21:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=20533"},"modified":"2014-08-18T15:15:12","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T21:15:12","slug":"bahrain-kingdom-of-injustice-22-new-political-prisoners-to-its-list-of-detained-on-false-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=20533","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain Kingdom of Injustice 22 new Political Prisoners to its list of detained on false charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahrain regime imprisons 22 Shiite over anti-regime protests<\/strong><br \/>\n17 August, 2014 &#8211; PRessTV<\/p>\n<p>The Bahraini regime has given jail terms to 22 activists for taking part in pro-democracy demonstrations in the Persian Gulf country.<\/p>\n<p>The Bahraini regime has given jail terms to 22 activists for taking part in pro-democracy demonstrations in the Persian Gulf country.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, a Bahraini court sentenced 18 citizens to three years and four others to two years in prison for partaking in protests in Bani Jamra, a village in the northwest of Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, thousands of people staged an anti-regime protest in the village of Diraz on the country\u2019s northwestern coast to voice solidarity with journalists and photographers arrested by the Al Khalifa regime\u2019s crackdown.<\/p>\n<p>A separate demonstration was held in the village of Sanabis, located in the suburbs of the Bahraini capital Manama.<\/p>\n<p>Since mid-February 2011, thousands of pro-democracy protesters have held numerous demonstrations in the streets of Bahrain, calling for the Al Khalifa royal family to relinquish power.<\/p>\n<p>On March 14, 2011, troops from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates invaded the country to assist the Bahraini government in its crackdown on peaceful protesters.<\/p>\n<p>According to local sources, scores of people have been killed and hundreds arrested.<\/p>\n<p>On June 10, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) censured the Manama regime for human rights violations in the country. A total of 46 members of the international body expressed deep concern over the Al Khalifa regime\u2019s crackdown on peaceful protesters.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abna.ir\/english\/service\/bahrain\/archive\/2014\/08\/17\/631617\/story.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%3D20533&amp;text=Bahrain+Kingdom+of+Injustice+22+new+Political+Prisoners+to+its+list+of+detained+on+false+charges&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain regime imprisons 22 Shiite over anti-regime protests 17 August, 2014 &#8211; PRessTV The Bahraini regime has given jail terms to 22 activists for taking part in pro-democracy demonstrations in the Persian Gulf country. The Bahraini regime has given jail terms to 22 activists for taking part in pro-democracy demonstrations in the Persian Gulf country. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=20533#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":[2314],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20533"}],"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=20533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20534,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20533\/revisions\/20534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}