{"id":8324,"date":"2012-04-06T13:19:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T20:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=8324"},"modified":"2012-04-06T13:19:26","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T20:19:26","slug":"bahrain-opposition-rallies-for-hunger-striker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=8324","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain opposition rallies for hunger striker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bahrain opposition rallies for hunger striker<\/strong>
\n6 April, 2012 – (AFP)<\/p>\n

DUBAI \u2014 Hundreds of people demonstrated in Bahrain on Friday for the release of a jailed activist who has been on hunger strike for almost two months.<\/p>\n

Two demonstrations — in Jidhafs district of Manama and in the village of Aali — uged the release of rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, witnesses told AFP.<\/p>\n

The protesters carried pictures of Khawaja alongside Bahraini flags and chanted his name.<\/p>\n

Bahrain’s largest opposition movement Al-Wefaq warned that the activist’s life was now in danger and urged the international community to intervene and press for his release.<\/p>\n

Khawaja, who was condemned with other opposition activists to life in jail over an alleged plot to topple the Sunni monarchy during a month-long protest a year ago, began his hunger strike on the night of February 8-9.<\/p>\n

Late on Thursday, Al-Wefaq said his daughter Zainab al-Khawaja was arrested after she protested outside the interior ministry’s hospital where her father was being held to urge his release.<\/p>\n

“In a phone call to her husband, Zainab announced starting a hunger strike in solidarity with her father,” said the Shiite opposition grouping.<\/p>\n

A police statement on state news agency BNA said she was arrested for having “attacked a public employee who was doing his duty” and who “repeatedly informed her she was not allowed to stand at the entrance” to the ministry.<\/p>\n

Front Line Defenders, a Dublin-based non-governmental organisation, warned Tuesday after a visit to Manama that Khawaja, who it said has shed 25 percent of his body weight, could die in jail as he is “at risk of organ failure.” …more<\/a><\/p>\n

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Bahrain opposition rallies for hunger striker 6 April, 2012 – (AFP) DUBAI \u2014 Hundreds of people demonstrated in Bahrain on Friday for the release of a jailed activist who has been on hunger strike for almost two months. Two demonstrations — in Jidhafs district of Manama and in the village of Aali — uged the 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":[1925],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324"}],"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=8324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8325,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324\/revisions\/8325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}