{"id":3275,"date":"2011-09-26T18:09:54","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T01:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=3275"},"modified":"2011-09-26T18:09:54","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T01:09:54","slug":"suffering-physical-assault-and-humiliation-over-40-bahraini-women-detained-for-voting-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=3275","title":{"rendered":"Suffering physical assault and humiliation over 40 Bahraini Women detained for voting protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>40 women arrested over Bahrain vote protest: opposition<\/strong><br \/>\n(AFP) \u2013 8 hours ago <\/p>\n<p>DUBAI \u2014 More than 40 Bahraini women were arrested and beaten by security forces for protesting against parliamentary by-elections, the main Shiite opposition group Al-Wefaq said in a statement Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;More than 40 Bahraini women were savagely arrested&#8230; in a commercial centre where they were beaten,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Seven minors aged between 12 and 15 were among them,&#8221; the statement said, quoting their lawyers, adding that they were &#8220;beaten and humiliated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Al-Wefaq called for the immediate release of the women, said they had only been expressing their &#8220;right to freedom of expression,&#8221; and called their treatment &#8220;savage and inhumane.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The group said clerics from the Shiite-majority kingdom ruled by a Sunni dynasty staged a protest sit-in on Monday in a Shiite suburb of the capital Manama.<\/p>\n<p>The women were arrested on Friday a day before the by-elections boycotted by the opposition to replace 18 Shiite MPs who quit the parliament in protest over the violence used against demonstrators in February.<\/p>\n<p>A second round of voting in the by-elections will be held on Saturday in nine constituencies, the authorities announced on Sunday.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5h6S3C3G3hXRHvkgOTuxMq4O0E-Cw?docId=CNG.6f3256cd60ce64884378c52c9f745503.281\"> &#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%3D3275&amp;text=Suffering+physical+assault+and+humiliation+over+40+Bahraini+Women+detained+for+voting+protest&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>40 women arrested over Bahrain vote protest: opposition (AFP) \u2013 8 hours ago DUBAI \u2014 More than 40 Bahraini women were arrested and beaten by security forces for protesting against parliamentary by-elections, the main Shiite opposition group Al-Wefaq said in a statement Monday. &#8220;More than 40 Bahraini women were savagely arrested&#8230; in a commercial centre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=3275#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/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":[1808],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275"}],"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=3275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}