{"id":3340,"date":"2011-10-03T18:03:24","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T01:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=3340"},"modified":"2011-10-03T18:03:24","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T01:03:24","slug":"bahrain-views-west-silence-green-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=3340","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain views West silence, green light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8216;Bahrain views West silence, green light&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\nNabeel Rajab, President of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights &#8211; PressTV<\/p>\n<p>A human rights activist tells Press TV that the Bahraini regime considers Western silence on the brutal human rights violations in the country as a \u201cgreen light\u201d to continue with violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe they [Bahrain&#8217;s Al Khalifa regime] received a quit criticism or silence from European countries and the United States government. And they understood that as a green light that they could do anything,\u201d President of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights Nabeel Rajab said in an interview with Press TV on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He further added that Bahrain is still receiving both economic and political support from the US and Saudi Arabia despite its brutal crackdown on peaceful protesters in the kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Rajab said this silence is the main reason why Bahrain feels it can act like a super power.<\/p>\n<p>Since mid-February, anti-government protesters have been staging regular demonstrations in Bahrain, calling on the Al Khalifa family to relinquish power.<\/p>\n<p>On March 14, troops from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were deployed to the country to assist the Bahraini government in its crackdown on peaceful protesters.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/202593.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%3D3340&amp;text=Bahrain+views+West+silence%2C+green+light&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Bahrain views West silence, green light&#8217; Nabeel Rajab, President of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights &#8211; PressTV A human rights activist tells Press TV that the Bahraini regime considers Western silence on the brutal human rights violations in the country as a \u201cgreen light\u201d to continue with violence. \u201cMaybe they [Bahrain&#8217;s Al Khalifa regime] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=3340#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":[582],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340"}],"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=3340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}