{"id":4258,"date":"2011-12-16T11:21:18","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T18:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4258"},"modified":"2011-12-16T11:21:18","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T18:21:18","slug":"king-hamad-sucsessful-human-rights-pressure-off-brutality-continues-as-abuses-run-rampant-in-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4258","title":{"rendered":"King Hamad sucsessful, Human Rights pressure off, brutality continues as abuses run rampant in Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahrain abuses continuing, London seminar told<\/strong><br \/>\n16 December, 2011 &#8211; Shia Post <\/p>\n<p>London: Human rights abuses in Bahrain are continuing unabated despite the regime being indicted by its own commission, a seminar at the British parliament attended by lawyers and some of the victims, has been told.<\/p>\n<p>In the opening speech, Liberal Democrat peer Lord Avebury, said that the regime is indicted not only by the Bahrain Independent Commission for Investigation (BICI) report but by a number of independent human rights bodies which have made similar accusations and more.<\/p>\n<p>The big question is whether the report, ordered by the king and presented by international United Nations war crimes expert, Cherif Bissiouni, is good for Bahrain, Avebury said.<\/p>\n<p>He said for the regime it did one thing, it removed international pressure to stop torture, arbitrary detention, extra-judicial killing and dismissal of workers.<\/p>\n<p>Avebury told the seminar at the House of Lords, entitled \u201cDead End for a regime guilty of systematic torture,\u201d that the commission also gave the regime \u201cbreathing space\u201d after being set up in June. <a href=\"http:\/\/shiapost.com\/?p=9753\" target=\"_blank\"> &#8230;more<\/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%3D4258&amp;text=King+Hamad+sucsessful%2C+Human+Rights+pressure+off%2C+brutality+continues+as+abuses+run+rampant+in+Bahrain&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain abuses continuing, London seminar told 16 December, 2011 &#8211; Shia Post London: Human rights abuses in Bahrain are continuing unabated despite the regime being indicted by its own commission, a seminar at the British parliament attended by lawyers and some of the victims, has been told. In the opening speech, Liberal Democrat peer Lord <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4258#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":[2139],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4258"}],"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=4258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}