{"id":4081,"date":"2017-04-16T05:48:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-16T05:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/4081-bahrain-cracks-down-on-formula-one-protesters\/"},"modified":"2017-04-16T05:48:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T05:48:02","slug":"bahrain-cracks-down-on-formula-one-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/4081-bahrain-cracks-down-on-formula-one-protesters\/","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain cracks down on Formula One protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Security forces in Bahrain have cracked down hard on people protesting the country\u2019s hosting of the Formula One race, which they say serves to distract world attention away from the government\u2019s large-scale rights violations.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>Security forces in Bahrain have cracked down hard on people protesting the country\u2019s hosting of the Formula One race, which they say serves to distract world attention away from the government\u2019s large-scale rights violations.<\/h4>\n<h4>Protest rallies took place in the Bilad al-Qadeem suburb of the capital, Manama, the western Nuwaidrat Village, as well as on the Sitra Island, likewise situated in the country\u2019s west, on Thursday, according to the Sitra Media network.<\/h4>\n<h4>Security forces were deployed to all protest sites and attacked the demonstrators to break up the rallies, according to the network, which reports on political and human rights activism in Bahrain and the authorities\u2019 treatment of the campaigners.<\/h4>\n<h4>Pictures were also circulated across social media showing protesters burning the race\u2019s tickets.<\/h4>\n<h4>The Bahraini regime is notorious for its lack of tolerance of political opposition and exercising discrimination against the country\u2019s Shia majority.<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security forces in Bahrain have cracked down hard on people protesting the country\u2019s hosting of the Formula One race, which they say serves to distract world attention away from the government\u2019s large-scale rights violations. \u00a0 Security forces in Bahrain have cracked down hard on people protesting the country\u2019s hosting of the Formula One race, which &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[54,799,793,678],"class_list":["post-4081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islam","tag-bahrain","tag-formula-one","tag-picture","tag-protesters"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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