{"id":3939,"date":"2011-11-22T02:20:32","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T09:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=3939"},"modified":"2011-11-22T02:21:39","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T09:21:39","slug":"amnesty-and-other-ngos-lend-awkward-and-questionable-legitimacy-to-flawed-bici","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=3939","title":{"rendered":"Sadly Amnesty lends awkward and questionable legitimacy to flawed BICI Charade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ADVISORY<br \/>\n17 November 2011 legitimacy<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nAmnesty International in Bahrain for Commission of Inquiry report launch<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Amnesty International\u2019s Bahrain researcher Said Boumedouha and Middle East and North Africa Press Officer James Lynch will be in Bahrain, at the invitation of the Bahraini government, for the 23 November launch of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI) report (also sometimes called the \u201cBassiouni commission\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>The team will be available for interview from Manama in English and Arabic about the work of the Commission and its findings, by phone or &#8211; subject to arrangement &#8211; in person.<\/p>\n<p>Said Boumedouha has been working on Bahrain for Amnesty International for over 15 years. He visited Bahrain in March and April 2011 to carry out research into the human rights crisis in the country.<\/p>\n<p>When: The Amnesty delegates will be in Bahrain from the morning of 22 November.<\/p>\n<p>Contact: \uf020\uf020\uf020\uf020James Lynch (+44 7831 640 170, james.lynch@amnesty.org)<br \/>\n\uf020\uf020\uf020\uf020\uf020\uf020\uf020\uf020Amnesty International Press Office, London (+44 20 7413 5566, press@amnesty.org) <\/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%3D3939&amp;text=Sadly+Amnesty+lends+awkward+and+questionable+legitimacy+to+flawed+BICI+Charade&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ADVISORY 17 November 2011 legitimacy Amnesty International in Bahrain for Commission of Inquiry report launch Amnesty International\u2019s Bahrain researcher Said Boumedouha and Middle East and North Africa Press Officer James Lynch will be in Bahrain, at the invitation of the Bahraini government, for the 23 November launch of the Bahrain Independent Commission <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=3939#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":[2074],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939"}],"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=3939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}