{"id":779,"date":"2011-04-18T14:04:53","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T21:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=779"},"modified":"2011-04-25T13:42:39","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T20:42:39","slug":"8th-day-of-hunger-strike-zainab-alkhawaja-pleas-to-obama-to-help-release-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=779","title":{"rendered":"8th Day of Hunger Strike, Zainab Alkhawaja Pleas to Obama to Help Release Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/embed_show_v2\/300\/2011\/4\/18\/story\/on_8th_day_of_hunger_strike\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As the brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters continues in the Gulf state of Bahrain, we speak with Zainab Alkhawaja, whose father, husband and brother-in-law were detained last Saturday following a late night raid at their home. Zainab is on the eighth day of a hunger strike that she vows to continue until her family members are released. We also speak with Human Rights Watch researcher, Faraz Sanei, who just spent six weeks in Bahrain. \u201cWhat we\u2019re seeing in Bahrain today is a full-scale crackdown on any sort of dissent in the country,\u201d Sanei says. \u201cWe are now seeing an absolute slide into a police state and dictatorship in Bahrain.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2011\/4\/18\/on_8th_day_of_hunger_strike\">&#8230;more<\/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%3D779&amp;text=8th+Day+of+Hunger+Strike%2C+Zainab+Alkhawaja+Pleas+to+Obama+to+Help+Release+Family&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters continues in the Gulf state of Bahrain, we speak with Zainab Alkhawaja, whose father, husband and brother-in-law were detained last Saturday following a late night raid at their home. Zainab is on the eighth day of a hunger strike that she vows to continue until her family members <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=779#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[626,629,628,627],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779"}],"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=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}