{"id":5761,"date":"2012-02-10T07:35:45","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T14:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=5761"},"modified":"2012-02-10T07:36:05","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T14:36:05","slug":"%e2%80%9cwitness-bahrain%e2%80%9d-launched-as-ongoing-revolution-marks-first-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=5761","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWitness Bahrain\u201d Launched as Ongoing Revolution Marks First Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cWitness Bahrain\u201d Launched as Ongoing Revolution Marks First Year<\/strong><br \/>\nFebruary 10, 2012 &#8211; February 10. 2012<\/p>\n<p><strong>International Observers Arrive in Bahrain<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Manama &#8211; Human rights defenders launched the \u201cWitness Bahrain\u201d initiative to monitor and report on the repression of Arab Spring democracy activists in the Kingdom of Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWitness Bahrain\u201d is a group of international observers, primarily from the United States, who have responded to the call of Bahraini human rights activists to witness their revolution, stand with them at protests, in hospitals and in villages, and to tell the world what they see.  The government of Bahrain has denied entry to a number of prominent journalists and human rights workers in the lead-up to the one-year anniversary of the massive and ongoing pro-democracy movement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople here fear that the government of Bahrain\u2019s attempt to keep out foreign observers signals an impending escalation of violence,\u201d said Radhika Sainath, a civil rights attorney from New York.  \u201cAs such, our presence here is all the more crucial.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the coming days and weeks, Witness Bahrain will stand with people taking to the streets to demand democracy, equality and respect for human rights. Witness Bahrain will also maintain a presence in villages active in pro-democracy protests which are being subjected to night raids, tear-gassing and other attacks by the police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe call on the Bahraini government to refrain from attacking peaceful protesters; however, should the government choose to continue using violence, we will be present to witness,\u201d the group said.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Witness Bahrain: follow Witness Bahrain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.WitnessBahrain.org\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nTwitter: @WitnessBahrain Email: info@WitnessBahrain.org<\/strong><\/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%3D5761&amp;text=%E2%80%9CWitness+Bahrain%E2%80%9D+Launched+as+Ongoing+Revolution+Marks+First+Year&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWitness Bahrain\u201d Launched as Ongoing Revolution Marks First Year February 10, 2012 &#8211; February 10. 2012 International Observers Arrive in Bahrain Manama &#8211; Human rights defenders launched the \u201cWitness Bahrain\u201d initiative to monitor and report on the repression of Arab Spring democracy activists in the Kingdom of Bahrain. \u201cWitness Bahrain\u201d is a group of international <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=5761#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[582],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5761"}],"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=5761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5763,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5761\/revisions\/5763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}