{"id":36898,"date":"2012-05-29T11:08:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T10:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=36898"},"modified":"2012-06-18T10:40:50","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T09:40:50","slug":"index-award-winner-released-from-bahraini-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=36898","title":{"rendered":"Index award winner released from Bahraini prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Index on Censorship welcomes yesterday\u2019s release of prominent rights activist and Index 2012 Award winner <a title=\"Index: Nabeel Rajab\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/nabeel-rajab\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nabeel Rajab<\/a>, and calls for all charges against the activist to be dropped<\/strong><!--more-->.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/p.twimg.com\/At-iG-RCMAEJ7XR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Index Chief Executive Kirsty Hughes said: &#8220;We\u2019re delighted that Nabeel has been released but there are many other activists in Bahraini prisons simply because they have criticised the government on social networking sites or attended protests. Despite their promises, the Bahraini government continues to harass political activists and deny its citizens the right to free expression and free assembly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/uncut.indexoncensorship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/7029690835_fb826f43bd.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rajab, who is the head of the <a title=\"Index: BCHR\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2009\/05\/bahrain-centre-for-human-rights-bchr\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR)<\/a>, was arrested on 5 May for \u201cinsulting an authority\u201d and \u201corganising illegal protests\u201d. \u00a0In March, the BCHR was <a title=\"Index award winners 2012\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/awards-winners\/\" target=\"_blank\">awarded<\/a> an Index advocacy award for its work in documenting human rights violations, political repression and torture in the gulf kingdom since protests began there last February. \u00a0The founder of BCHR, <a title=\"Index: Abdulhadi Alkhawaja\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/abdulhadi-alkhawaja\/\" target=\"_blank\">Abdulhadi Alkhawaja<\/a> is in prison while awaiting a retrial after been jailed for life by a military tribunal for taking part in peaceful protests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Index on Censorship welcomes yesterday\u2019s release of prominent rights activist and Index 2012 Award winner Nabeel Rajab, and calls for all charges against the activist to be dropped<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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":[4060],"tags":[3371,7405,3369,571,4356,3368],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36898"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36898"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37612,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36898\/revisions\/37612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}