{"id":31847,"date":"2012-01-10T15:14:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T15:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=31847"},"modified":"2012-01-10T15:14:23","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T15:14:23","slug":"bahrain-policeman-jailed-for-joining-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=31847","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain: Policeman jailed for joining protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a title=\"Index on Censorship : Bahrain\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Bahrain\" target=\"_blank\">Bahraini<\/a> policeman has <a title=\"BBC : Bahrain unrest: policeman jailed for joining protests\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-16472923\" target=\"_blank\">been sentenced<\/a> to more than 12 years in prison for his involvement in protests against the government\u00a0<a title=\"Guardian : 'The regime must fall, and we will make sure it does'\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/feb\/18\/bahrain-protests-regime-fall\" target=\"_blank\">last year<\/a>. 25 year-old\u00a0Ali al-Ghanami left his guard post during protests on\u00a017 February 2011, which left\u00a0two protesters dead and more than a hundred injured. Speaking to the BBC, al-Ghanami&#8217;s brother said after witnessing\u00a0dead and wounded being moved to a nearby hospital, Ali told crowds he could not work for a &#8220;killer institution.&#8221; Over the next month, Ali al-Ghanami\u00a0spoke openly at rallies against the government of King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bahraini policeman has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for his involvement in protests against the government\u00a0last year. 25 year-old\u00a0Ali al-Ghanami left his guard post during protests on\u00a017 February 2011, which left\u00a0two protesters dead and more than a hundred injured. Speaking to the BBC, al-Ghanami&#8217;s brother said after witnessing\u00a0dead and wounded [&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":[4171,7405,346,283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31847"}],"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=31847"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31860,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31847\/revisions\/31860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}