{"id":4469,"date":"2011-12-27T18:12:55","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T01:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4469"},"modified":"2011-12-27T18:12:55","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T01:12:55","slug":"us-congress-standing-up-for-accountability-for-human-rights-abuses-in-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4469","title":{"rendered":"US Congress Standing Up for Accountability for Human Rights Abuses in Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Representatives Sign Bahrain Arms Sale Resolution<\/strong><br \/>\n27 December, 2011 &#8211; POMED<\/p>\n<p>Representatives Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Christopher S. Murphy (D-CT)  joined sixteen other cosponsors by signing on to H.J. Res. 80, which calls for \u201climiting the issuance of a letter of offer with respect to a certain proposed sale of defense articles and defense services to the Kingdom of Bahrain,\u201d originally introduced by Rep. James McGovern (D-MA).<\/p>\n<p>The resolution limits the proposed arms sale, requiring the Secretary of State to \u201ccertify to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives\u201d that the Government of Bahrain \u201cis conducting good faith investigations and prosecutions of alleged perpetrators responsible for the killing, torture, arbitrary detention, and other human rights violations committed since February 2011,\u201d among other measures ensuring the Government of Bahrain\u2019s compliance with international human rights standards. <a href=\"http:\/\/pomed.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/representatives-sign-bahrain-arms-sale.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%3D4469&amp;text=US+Congress+Standing+Up+for+Accountability+for+Human+Rights+Abuses+in+Bahrain&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representatives Sign Bahrain Arms Sale Resolution 27 December, 2011 &#8211; POMED Representatives Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Christopher S. Murphy (D-CT) joined sixteen other cosponsors by signing on to H.J. Res. 80, which calls for \u201climiting the issuance of a letter of offer with respect to a certain proposed sale of defense <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4469#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[1944],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469"}],"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=4469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4470,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469\/revisions\/4470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}