{"id":8582,"date":"2012-04-12T10:44:11","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T17:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=8582"},"modified":"2012-04-12T10:44:11","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T17:44:11","slug":"violent-moi-police-attacks-on-protesters-could-cause-bad-press-for-bahrain-f1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=8582","title":{"rendered":"Violent MOI Police attacks on protesters could cause bad press for Bahrain F1?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahraini Police Must Protect Peaceful Demonstrators during Formula One Event<\/strong><br \/>\n12 April, 2012 &#8211; Human Rights First<\/p>\n<p>Washington, DC \u2013 Human Rights First today raised concerns that Bahraini police will attack, rather than protect peaceful protestors who are expected to demonstrate during this weekend\u2019s Formula One racing event.  The organization noted that, in past protests, Bahraini demonstrators have been met with excessive force and that organizers have an obligation to thwart a repeat of these abuses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the past year, the Bahraini police have proven time and again that their preferred response to peaceful demonstrators is brutality, arrest, and torture,\u201d said Human Rights First\u2019s Brian Dooley.  \u201cUntil the government addresses these issues, we remain concerned for the safety of protesters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since February of last year, the government of Bahrain has engaged in an ongoing crackdown on protestors, unfairly prosecuting protestors, including medics and educators, and torturing those in police custody.  The police force is not trusted by Bahraini citizens, who often fear that going to the police for any reason will result in their prosecution.  Human Rights First is concerned that there is no guarantee for the safety of protestors during the Formula One race; in the past they have been subjected to excessive force, beatings, and tear gas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil the government of Bahrain addresses the pervasive human rights abuses, the Formula One race will forever be associated with a brutal regime intent on violently attacking its own citizens,\u201d concluded Dooley.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanrightsfirst.org\/2012\/04\/12\/bahraini-police-must-protect-peaceful-demonstrators-during-formula-one-event\/\" 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%3D8582&amp;text=Violent+MOI+Police+attacks+on+protesters+could+cause+bad+press+for+Bahrain+F1%3F&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahraini Police Must Protect Peaceful Demonstrators during Formula One Event 12 April, 2012 &#8211; Human Rights First Washington, DC \u2013 Human Rights First today raised concerns that Bahraini police will attack, rather than protect peaceful protestors who are expected to demonstrate during this weekend\u2019s Formula One racing event. The organization noted that, in past protests, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=8582#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":[2306],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8582"}],"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=8582"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8584,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8582\/revisions\/8584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}