{"id":5782,"date":"2012-02-10T15:14:14","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T22:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=5782"},"modified":"2012-02-10T15:14:14","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T22:14:14","slug":"u-s-rep-jim-mcgovern-statement-on-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=5782","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern: Statement on Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern: Statement on Bahrain<\/strong><br \/>\n10 February, 2012 &#8211; Office of Congressman McGovern<\/p>\n<p>Washington&#8212;Congressman James P. McGovern (D-MA) today urged the Bahraini government to allow Bahrainis to assemble and express their political views on February 14 in commemoration of the one-year anniversary of the outbreak of major demonstrations in Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>Congressman McGovern also urged the Bahraini security forces and Bahraini protesters to refrain from the use of violence on the anniversary. Violence by either side only serves to strengthen those opposed to genuine peace and reconciliation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rights to assemble peaceably and express political views are fundamental human rights,\u201d said Congressman McGovern. \u201cThe Bahraini government should respect these critical rights, and all Bahrainis should reject the use of violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Congressman McGovern is Co-Chairman of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission.    <a href=\"http:\/\/mcgovern.house.gov\/index.cfm?sectionid=15&#038;sectiontree=168,15&#038;itemid=606\" 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%3D5782&amp;text=U.S.+Rep.+Jim+McGovern%3A+Statement+on+Bahrain&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern: Statement on Bahrain 10 February, 2012 &#8211; Office of Congressman McGovern Washington&#8212;Congressman James P. McGovern (D-MA) today urged the Bahraini government to allow Bahrainis to assemble and express their political views on February 14 in commemoration of the one-year anniversary of the outbreak of major demonstrations in Bahrain. Congressman McGovern also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=5782#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":[2476],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5782"}],"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=5782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5783,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5782\/revisions\/5783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}