{"id":8278,"date":"2013-05-16T08:11:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T03:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=8278"},"modified":"2013-05-16T08:11:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T03:11:32","slug":"bahrain-court-jails-6-tweeters-for-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=8278","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain court jails 6 tweeters for a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/3\u0532\u0561\u0570\u0580\u0565\u0575\u0576\u056b-\u0564\u0561\u057f\u0561\u0580\u0561\u0576\u0568-Twitter-\u056b-\u057e\u0565\u0581-\u0585\u0563\u057f\u0561\u057f\u0565\u0580\u0565\u0580\u056b\u0576-\u0564\u0561\u057f\u0561\u057a\u0561\u0580\u057f\u0578\u0582\u0574-\u0567.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8275\" alt=\"3\u0532\u0561\u0570\u0580\u0565\u0575\u0576\u056b \u0564\u0561\u057f\u0561\u0580\u0561\u0576\u0568 Twitter-\u056b \u057e\u0565\u0581 \u0585\u0563\u057f\u0561\u057f\u0565\u0580\u0565\u0580\u056b\u0576 \u0564\u0561\u057f\u0561\u057a\u0561\u0580\u057f\u0578\u0582\u0574 \u0567\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/3\u0532\u0561\u0570\u0580\u0565\u0575\u0576\u056b-\u0564\u0561\u057f\u0561\u0580\u0561\u0576\u0568-Twitter-\u056b-\u057e\u0565\u0581-\u0585\u0563\u057f\u0561\u057f\u0565\u0580\u0565\u0580\u056b\u0576-\u0564\u0561\u057f\u0561\u057a\u0561\u0580\u057f\u0578\u0582\u0574-\u0567.jpg\" width=\"245\" height=\"163\" \/><\/a>A Bahraini court on Wednesday sentenced six tweeters charged with insulting King Hamad to one year in prison, the public prosecutor&#8217;s office announced.<br \/>\nThe six were charged by the lower criminal court with &#8220;misusing the right of free expression,&#8221; it said in a statement.<br \/>\nThey were accused of writing remarks &#8220;undermining the values and traditions of Bahrain&#8217;s society towards the king on Twitter,&#8221; according to the statement.<br \/>\nActivists in Bahrain, the scene of a Shiite-led uprising that began two years ago against the ruling Sunni monarchy, use Twitter as a platform to report what they describe as regime &#8220;violations&#8221; against them.<br \/>\nProminent activist Nabil Rajab, who heads the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, has been in custody since June 6 on charges of insulting members of the Sunni community via Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bahraini court on Wednesday sentenced six tweeters charged with insulting King Hamad to one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}