{"id":9180,"date":"2012-04-26T09:52:30","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T16:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=9180"},"modified":"2012-04-26T09:52:30","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T16:52:30","slug":"day-78-abdulhadi-al-khawaja-freedom-or-death-hunger-strike-disappeared-moi-shuts-out-family-and-communication-about-his-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=9180","title":{"rendered":"Day 78, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja “freedom or death” hunger strike, disappeared – MOI shuts out family and communication about his condition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Increased Concern for Al-Khawaja Amid Disappearance<\/strong>
\n26 April, 2012 – POMED<\/p>\n

Abdulhadi al-Khawaja entered his 78th day of hunger strike today, but his whereabouts is still unconfirmed. His wife recalled their last phone conversation on Monday, saying, \u201c\u201dSomething is very wrong. He was talking about accepting death as the path of freedom, he sounded very weak and tired.\u201d Al-Khawaja\u2019s lawyer, Mohamed al-Jishi said he is requesting a court order for visiting rights to his client, whom he has not seen since April 4th. Minister of Justice and Islamic Affairs Khalid Bin Ali Al-Khalifa said al-Khawaja can make a voluntary choice to end his hunger strike, and assured the BBC that he is being provided with \u201coptimal health care.\u201d Al-Khawaja\u2019s case and the recent increase in reported cases of violence have prompted an official statement from U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland, who called for an end to the violence and urged the Bahraini government to find a solution for al-Khawaja\u2019s case. The State Department also issued a travel warning about Bahrain.<\/p>\n

Western media has received some criticism for its coverage of Bahrain. Sarah Hildt says the New York Times falsely characterized al-Khawaja\u2019s daughter, Zainab al-Khawaja. \u201cThe American media has failed spectacularly in its coverage of Bahrain,\u201d she writes, \u201cLet us at very least not deepen this failure by now slandering and misrepresenting the stance of someone as principled and courageous as his daughter Zainab.\u201d Jihad El-Khazen, writing for Saudi-owned Al Arabiya, attributes poor Western media coverage of Bahrain to \u201cignorance.\u201d Sara Yasin says the Bahraini government has been given ample time to implement the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry\u2019s recommendations, and given the lack of substantial reform, \u201cThis means that [the international community] shouldn\u2019t be doing business with the regime, and most certainly should not be selling them arms or inviting them to lunch.\u201d …source<\/a><\/p>\n

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Increased Concern for Al-Khawaja Amid Disappearance 26 April, 2012 – POMED Abdulhadi al-Khawaja entered his 78th day of hunger strike today, but his whereabouts is still unconfirmed. His wife recalled their last phone conversation on Monday, saying, \u201c\u201dSomething is very wrong. He was talking about accepting death as the path of freedom, he sounded very 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\/9180"}],"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=9180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9181,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9180\/revisions\/9181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}