{"id":4253,"date":"2011-12-15T16:14:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T23:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4253"},"modified":"2011-12-15T16:16:51","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T23:16:51","slug":"zainab-alkhawaja-27-human-rights-activist-arrested-during-a-peaceful-protest-in-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4253","title":{"rendered":"Zainab Alkhawaja, 27, human rights activist, arrested during a peaceful protest in Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is here we see new heights of US hypocrisy regarding Bahrain become so clear, State Department special coordinator on Middle East affairs Frederic Hof told US lawmakers: &#8220;Does the regime permit peaceful protest? Does the regime allow the political opposition to organize, discuss and deliberate without fear of assassination or arrest?&#8221;  He was talking about Syria.  <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"295\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i3Zdk98x9TM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/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%3D4253&amp;text=Zainab+Alkhawaja%2C+27%2C+human+rights+activist%2C+arrested+during+a+peaceful+protest+in+Bahrain&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is here we see new heights of US hypocrisy regarding Bahrain become so clear, State Department special coordinator on Middle East affairs Frederic Hof told US lawmakers: &#8220;Does the regime permit peaceful protest? Does the regime allow the political opposition to organize, discuss and deliberate without fear of assassination or arrest?&#8221; He was talking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4253#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":[2195],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4253"}],"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=4253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}