{"id":5680,"date":"2012-02-07T19:28:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T02:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=5680"},"modified":"2012-02-07T19:28:16","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T02:28:16","slug":"bahraini-mother-freed-after-months-in-jail-for-revolutionary-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=5680","title":{"rendered":"Bahraini mother freed after months in jail for revolutionary music"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bahraini mother freed after months in jail for revolutionary music<\/strong>
\n6 February, 2012 – alakhbar<\/p>\n

Prominent Bahraini activist Fadheela Al-Mubarak was freed on Monday, nearly a year after being arrested for listening to revolutionary music, as pro-democracy protests continue.<\/p>\n

Mubarak was among the first female activists to have been arrested in Bahrain when she was taken into custody at a checkpoint in March.<\/p>\n

She was sentenced to 18 months in jail by Bahraini authorities for listening to music that is common among many of the protesters, but is deemed revolutionary by the authorities.<\/p>\n

Mubarak was the first female to be tried in a military court in Bahrain.<\/p>\n

Her plight became a key talking point on social networking sites after her nine-year-old son Mahdi and her brother Ali posted an emotional video appeal for her release online.<\/p>\n

In the video, Mahdi appealed for the authorities to release her, saying \u201cI don’t like to live without my mother.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Monday, activist Ahlam Alkuzaie tweeted a picture showing Mubarak free and smiling.<\/p>\n

Also released on Monday was Naser Al-Raas, a Canadian citizen who had been jailed last Wednesday for breaking the country’s illegal-assembly laws during pro-democracy protests.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the state activists continued their week of protests against the government.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, thousands of people took to the streets in Manama, including families of the women detained calling for their release outside the central police station. …more<\/a><\/p>\n

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