{"id":7883,"date":"2014-02-18T08:11:01","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T08:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=7883"},"modified":"2014-02-18T08:11:22","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T08:11:22","slug":"bahraini-activist-zainab-al-khawaja-released-after-one-year-behind-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/bahraini-activist-zainab-al-khawaja-released-after-one-year-behind-bars\/","title":{"rendered":"Bahraini activist Zainab Al-Khawaja released after one year behind bars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahraini activist Zainab al-Khawaja was released from prison on Sunday after nearly a year behind bars for multiple convictions including participation in a so-called &#8220;illegal&#8221; gathering.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Friends and supporters greeted her in a coffee shop in a main mall hours after her release. The cafe has served as a gathering point for activists since the small island-nation&#8217;s Arab Spring-inspired uprising.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One year of prison is nothing,&#8221; she told journalists defiantly after her release. &#8220;We have a cause&#8230; This will not stop us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bahrain&#8217;s opposition has led a three-year uprising seeking a greater political voice in the Sunni-ruled Gulf kingdom, which is home to the US Navy&#8217;s 5th Fleet.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Khawaja, who is popular online and on Twitter, said international attention should focus on an estimated 3,000 prisoners believed to be behind bars in Bahrain on politically related charges.<\/p>\n<p>Her father is prominent human rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, who is among several opposition figures who are serving life sentences. He drew attention to his imprisonment with a lengthy hunger strike in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Her lawyer Mohammed al-Attiyah said she still faces two trials, one this month and one next month, on charges that include damaging police property, defacing a picture of Bahrain&#8217;s king and insulting a police officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahraini activist Zainab al-Khawaja was released from prison on Sunday after nearly a year behind bars for multiple convictions including participation in a so-called &#8220;illegal&#8221; gathering. Friends and supporters greeted her in a coffee shop in a main mall hours after her release. The cafe has served as a gathering point for activists since the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[151,150,152],"class_list":["post-7883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-world-news","tag-activist","tag-bahraini","tag-zainab-al-khawaja"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7885,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7883\/revisions\/7885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}