{"id":4191,"date":"2011-12-09T16:11:57","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T23:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4191"},"modified":"2011-12-09T16:11:57","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T23:11:57","slug":"as-clinton-ban-ki-moon-prepare-to-send-human-rights-emissaries-as-green-light-to-king-hamad-he-gasses-and-arrests-nyt-journalist-and-crushes-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4191","title":{"rendered":"As Clinton, Ban Ki-moon prepare to send Human Rights emissaries as green light to King Hamad, he gasses and arrests NYT journalist and crushes protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Kristof Detained, Tear Gassed In Bahrain Along With Videographer Adam Ellick<br \/>\n09 December, 2011 &#8211; Huffington Post<\/p>\n<p>New York Times columnist Nick Kristof was detained by police while covering a protest in Bahrain on Friday. Kristof and his videographer, Adam Ellick, were held in a police car as tear gas was fired on protesters. The two journalists were also tear gassed themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Both Kristof and Ellick somehow managed to hang on to their mobile devices and tweeted about the incident while it was going on. Below, see how the detention unfolded.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter @NickKristof<br \/>\nNicholas Kristof<br \/>\nJust got tear gassed here in Bahrain. Protesters shouting down with king broken up by riot police in Jidhafs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/12\/09\/nick-kristof-detained-bahrain-ellick_n_1139884.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#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%3D4191&amp;text=As+Clinton%2C+Ban+Ki-moon+prepare+to+send+Human+Rights+emissaries+as+green+light+to+King+Hamad%2C+he+gasses+and+arrests+NYT+journalist+and+crushes+protest&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Kristof Detained, Tear Gassed In Bahrain Along With Videographer Adam Ellick 09 December, 2011 &#8211; Huffington Post New York Times columnist Nick Kristof was detained by police while covering a protest in Bahrain on Friday. Kristof and his videographer, Adam Ellick, were held in a police car as tear gas was fired on protesters. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4191#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":[2171],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191"}],"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=4191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}