{"id":6157,"date":"2012-02-21T08:09:58","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T15:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=6157"},"modified":"2012-02-21T08:09:58","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T15:09:58","slug":"bahrain-politician-acquitted-good-start-king-hamad-now-free-the-rest-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=6157","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain politician acquitted &#8211; good start King Hamad now free the rest of them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahrain opposition politician acquitted<\/strong><br \/>\n21 February, 2012 &#8211; Shia Post<\/p>\n<p>A Bahraini court has acquitted a prominent opposition leader who was accused of taking part in \u201cunlawful\u201d anti-government protests that rocked the Gulf state for the last year.<\/p>\n<p>The last of three charges against Matar Matar, a former MP and leading member of Al-Wefaq party, a mainly Shia opposition party, were dropped on Monday by a court in Manama, the capital.<\/p>\n<p>Matar had been charged with \u201cundermining public security by assembling with a group of more than five people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last charge against me has been dropped,\u201d he said on Monday,  Bahrain ordered the release in August of Matar and another Al-Wefaq member, Jawad Fayruz, who were both arrested last May after a crackdown on Shia-led protests in the Sunni-ruled country.<\/p>\n<p>The court had already dropped two of the three charges Matar was being tried for: calling for regime change and spreading rumours linked to pro-democracy protests.<\/p>\n<p>Matar and Fayruz were among 18 Shia MPs who resigned in protest at the government\u2019s crackdown on the demonstrations that erupted on February 14, 2011. Fayruz\u2019s trial is still continuing.  <a href=\"http:\/\/shiapost.com\/?p=12542\" 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%3D6157&amp;text=Bahrain+politician+acquitted+-+good+start+King+Hamad+now+free+the+rest+of+them&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain opposition politician acquitted 21 February, 2012 &#8211; Shia Post A Bahraini court has acquitted a prominent opposition leader who was accused of taking part in \u201cunlawful\u201d anti-government protests that rocked the Gulf state for the last year. The last of three charges against Matar Matar, a former MP and leading member of Al-Wefaq party, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=6157#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":[1662],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6157"}],"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=6157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6158,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6157\/revisions\/6158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}