{"id":31814,"date":"2012-01-09T12:01:08","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T12:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=31814"},"modified":"2012-01-09T12:01:08","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T12:01:08","slug":"bahrain-human-rights-defender-attacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=31814","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain: Human rights defender attacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent human rights activist Nabeel Rajab was <a title=\"IFEX : Human rights defender Nabeel Rajab attacked, hospitalised\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ifex.org\/bahrain\/2012\/01\/06\/rajab_attacked\/\" target=\"_blank\">severely beaten<\/a> by security services in\u00a0<a title=\"Index on Censorship : Bahrain\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Bahrain\" target=\"_blank\">Bahrain<\/a> during a demonstration on Friday. <a title=\"BBC : Bahrain activist Nabeel Rajab: US expresses concern\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-16456109\" target=\"_blank\">Rajab was beaten<\/a>\u00a0on the back, head and neck\u00a0and was taken by ambulance to Salmaniya hospital after participating in a peaceful <a title=\"Youtube : Suppression of the march led by Nabeel Rajab, in Manama 06\/01\/2011\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-VdRMYYS_ok&amp;feature=share\" target=\"_blank\">protest in Manama<\/a>. The activist, who is President of The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (<a title=\"Gulf Centre for Human Rights : Home\" href=\"http:\/\/gc4hr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">GCHR<\/a>) and\u00a0Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (<a title=\"Bahrain Rights : Home\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bahrainrights.org\/en\" target=\"_blank\">BCHR<\/a>)\u00a0told his lawyer that\u00a0policemen gathered around him and began to beat him. Rajab has been released from hospital following treatment for\u00a0concussion, back pain and bruises to his back and face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent human rights activist Nabeel Rajab was severely beaten by security services in\u00a0Bahrain during a demonstration on Friday. Rajab was beaten\u00a0on the back, head and neck\u00a0and was taken by ambulance to Salmaniya hospital after participating in a peaceful protest in Manama. The activist, who is President of The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) and\u00a0Bahrain [&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":[7405,3370,4164,37,3368,283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31814"}],"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=31814"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31827,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31814\/revisions\/31827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}