{"id":4022,"date":"2011-11-29T13:32:37","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T20:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4022"},"modified":"2011-11-29T13:32:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T20:32:37","slug":"king-hamad-kicks-can-down-the-road-avoids-more-negative-press-bahrain-postpones-trial-of-61-athletes-accused-of-protest-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4022","title":{"rendered":"King Hamad, &#8220;kicks can down the road&#8221;, avoids more negative press &#8211; Bahrain postpones trial of 61 athletes accused of protest links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahrain postpones trial of 61 athletes accused of protest links<\/strong><br \/>\nBy Associated Press, Updated: Tuesday, November 29, 4:41 AM<\/p>\n<p>MANAMA, Bahrain \u2014 A Bahrain court has postponed the trial of 61 athletes and sports officials accused of links to anti-government protests.<\/p>\n<p>Defense attorney Mohsen al-Alawi says the hearing was rescheduled for Jan. 4 because most of the defendants did not appear at Tuesday\u2019s proceedings. They include handball, basketball and volleyball players along with referees and administrators for several sports.<\/p>\n<p>The charges include illegal assembly and inciting hatred against Bahrain\u2019s Sunni monarchy.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants are among 150 Shiite sportsmen detained as part of crackdowns on protests by Bahrain\u2019s Shiite majority seeking a greater political voice.<\/p>\n<p>An independent report issued last week accused authorities of widespread abuses including torture.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle-east\/bahrain-postpones-trial-of-61-athletes-accused-of-protest-links\/2011\/11\/29\/gIQAsEAB8N_story.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%3D4022&amp;text=King+Hamad%2C+%22kicks+can+down+the+road%22%2C+avoids+more+negative+press+-+Bahrain+postpones+trial+of+61+athletes+accused+of+protest+links&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain postpones trial of 61 athletes accused of protest links By Associated Press, Updated: Tuesday, November 29, 4:41 AM MANAMA, Bahrain \u2014 A Bahrain court has postponed the trial of 61 athletes and sports officials accused of links to anti-government protests. Defense attorney Mohsen al-Alawi says the hearing was rescheduled for Jan. 4 because most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4022#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":[2106],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022"}],"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=4022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}