{"id":2961,"date":"2011-09-03T07:31:15","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T14:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=2961"},"modified":"2011-09-03T07:31:15","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T14:31:15","slug":"bahrain-medicals-on-hunger-strike-and-suspended-military-courts-begin-new-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=2961","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain Medicals on Hunger Strike and suspended Military Courts begin new trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bahraini medical professionals, who were arrested at the start of a government crackdown on pro-democracy protests earlier this year, have gone on hunger strike, their relatives say.<br \/>\n<object width=425\" height=\"295\" ><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-muxXsb_kHU\" ><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src =\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-muxXsb_kHU\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"295\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>They have been held in jail for almost six months, while their trial continues in a military court.<\/p>\n<p>Bahraini and international human rights organisations have called the trials a farce.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Al Jazeera, Khalil Al-Mazrooq, a former chairman of the Shia bloc Al Wefaq, said: &#8220;The trial of Bahraini medics in a military tribunal is against the country\u2019s constitution. Article 105 of the constitution says civilians should be tried in civilian courts only.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Adel Al Moawda, chairman of parliamentary foreign affairs, defence and national security in Bahrain, said the medics would receive a fair trial.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Charles Stratford reports.  <a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/video\/middleeast\/2011\/09\/20119216401532863.html\"> &#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%3D2961&amp;text=Bahrain+Medicals+on+Hunger+Strike+and+suspended+Military+Courts+begin+new+trials&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahraini medical professionals, who were arrested at the start of a government crackdown on pro-democracy protests earlier this year, have gone on hunger strike, their relatives say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[1709],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961"}],"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=2961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}