{"id":27395,"date":"2011-09-29T14:39:47","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T13:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=27395"},"modified":"2011-10-03T14:40:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T13:40:00","slug":"bahrain-court-upholds-lengthy-prison-sentences-for-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=27395","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain: Court upholds lengthy prison sentences for journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"CPJ - Bahrain upholds lengthy prison sentences for journalists\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cpj.org\/2011\/09\/bahrain-1.php\" target=\"_blank\">lengthy prison sentences<\/a> of two journalists have been upheld in <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Bahrain\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Bahrain\" target=\"_blank\">Bahrain<\/a>. Journalistic bloggers Abduljalil Alsingace and Ali Abdel Imam were sentenced in June\u00a0on a series of charges related to &#8220;plotting to topple&#8221; the regime, along with 19 other people. The court upheld the <a title=\"CPJ - In Bahrain, extraordinary tribunal sentences bloggers to life\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cpj.org\/2011\/06\/in-bahrain-extraordinary-tribunal-sentences-blogge.php\" target=\"_blank\">life sentence<\/a> for\u00a0Alsingace and the 15 year sentence to\u00a0Abdel Imam.\u00a0Additionally in Bahrain, granting of ID passes to journalists from daily newspaper Al-Wasat was delayed, preventing the journalists from covering the government&#8217;s by-elections on Saturday. The passes would allow journalists to enter and report from polling stations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lengthy prison sentences of two journalists have been upheld in Bahrain. Journalistic bloggers Abduljalil Alsingace and Ali Abdel Imam were sentenced in June\u00a0on a series of charges related to &#8220;plotting to topple&#8221; the regime, along with 19 other people. The court upheld the life sentence for\u00a0Alsingace and the 15 year sentence to\u00a0Abdel Imam.\u00a0Additionally in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,4060,585],"tags":[7405,661,3114,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27395"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27510,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27395\/revisions\/27510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}