{"id":8431,"date":"2012-04-09T15:29:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T22:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=8431"},"modified":"2012-04-09T15:39:05","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T22:39:05","slug":"belated-statement-by-us-department-on-humanitarian-crisis-concerning-abdulhadi-al-khawaja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=8431","title":{"rendered":"Belated statement by US Department of State on Humanitarian Crisis concerning Abdulhadi al-Khawaja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>US in contact with Bahrain over jailed activist<\/strong><br \/>\n(AFP) \u2013 9 April, 2012 &#8211; 18:22PM EST<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The US State Department said Monday it is in contact with Bahraini authorities over the case of a jailed Bahraini-Danish activist and is urging a &#8220;humanitarian solution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed al-Jeshi, the lawyer for the activist, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, told AFP that Khawaja was feared to have died, after Bahraini authorities rejected repeated requests by Jeshi and his family to visit or contact him.<\/p>\n<p>State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters in Washington that &#8220;we are very concerned about the case of Mr al-Khawaja, particularly with regard to his health.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She added that Jeffrey Feltman, the assistant secretary of state for Near East affairs, and diplomats at the US embassy had reached out to the Bahraini authorities about the activist&#8217;s case.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are in touch with the Bahrainis and with our international partners, and we are urging a humanitarian solution,&#8221; Nuland said.<\/p>\n<p>Jeshi, who spoke by telephone to AFP in Dubai, said the last time he contacted Khawaja was on Saturday, a day after he was moved from the interior ministry hospital into a military hospital in Manama.<\/p>\n<p>Khawaja, a Shiite 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 a hunger strike on the night of February 8-9.<\/p>\n<p>Denmark has asked Bahrain to send Khawaja, who is also a Danish citizen, to the Scandinavian country. Bahrain&#8217;s official news agency BNA reported Sunday that Manama had turned down the request. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5gRKB5j7A2oA-dRBv85CauDutusAw?docId=CNG.c026d0a1755b6cfcda8a840f024eff32.3d1\" target=\"_blank\"> ..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%3D8431&amp;text=Belated+statement+by+US+Department+of+State+on+Humanitarian+Crisis+concerning+Abdulhadi+al-Khawaja&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US in contact with Bahrain over jailed activist (AFP) \u2013 9 April, 2012 &#8211; 18:22PM EST WASHINGTON \u2014 The US State Department said Monday it is in contact with Bahraini authorities over the case of a jailed Bahraini-Danish activist and is urging a &#8220;humanitarian solution.&#8221; Mohammed al-Jeshi, the lawyer for the activist, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=8431#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":[1925],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8431"}],"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=8431"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8433,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8431\/revisions\/8433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}