{"id":7533,"date":"2012-03-20T09:41:46","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T16:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=7533"},"modified":"2012-03-20T11:16:25","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T18:16:25","slug":"bahrain-gassing-deahts-set-off-alarms-at-un-human-rights-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=7533","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain Gassing Deaths Set Off Alarms at UN Human Rights Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UN Rights Office Concern at Bahrain Protest Deaths<\/strong><br \/>\nGENEVA March 20, 2012 (AP)<\/p>\n<p>The U.N.&#8217;s human rights office has expressed concern about the number of protesters in Bahrain who have died after security forces used tear gas against demonstrators.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights says the Geneva-based office has received &#8220;worrying reports of the disproportionate use of force by Bahraini security forces.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rupert Colville told reporters Tuesday that human rights groups claim 30 people have died because of tear gas since anti-government protests began in Feb 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Colville says the figures have been rising in recent months. He says the government disputes the figures.<\/p>\n<p>The U.N. human rights office is sending an expert team to Bahrain at the end of the month for talks with the government. <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/rights-office-concern-bahrain-protest-deaths-15959479\" 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%3D7533&amp;text=Bahrain+Gassing+Deaths+Set+Off+Alarms+at+UN+Human+Rights+Office&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN Rights Office Concern at Bahrain Protest Deaths GENEVA March 20, 2012 (AP) The U.N.&#8217;s human rights office has expressed concern about the number of protesters in Bahrain who have died after security forces used tear gas against demonstrators. A spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights says the Geneva-based office has received <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=7533#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":[2719],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7533"}],"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=7533"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7538,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7533\/revisions\/7538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}