{"id":71668,"date":"2020-12-17T14:10:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T14:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=71668"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:57:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:57:32","slug":"royal-pardon-for-169-prisoners-in-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/71668-royal-pardon-for-169-prisoners-in-bahrain\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal pardon for 169 prisoners in Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/photo_2020-12-17_16-42-50-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/photo_2020-12-17_16-42-50-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/photo_2020-12-17_16-42-50-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/photo_2020-12-17_16-42-50-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/photo_2020-12-17_16-42-50-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/photo_2020-12-17_16-42-50.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Bahrain\u2019s King Hamad issued a royal decree, pardoning 169 prisoners, who have served part of their jail terms for various reasons, without including prisoners of conscience and political prisoners.<br>The pardon was announced on the occasion of Bahrain\u2019s National Day commemorating the establishment of the modern Bahraini state as an Arab and Muslim country, founded by Ahmed Al Fateh in 1783, the anniversary of its full membership in the UN.<br>Observers called on the King of Bahrain to include prisoners of conscience, political prisoners, Shia clerics and citizens who were arrested for sectarian reasons and were sentenced with testimonies extracted under torture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain\u2019s King Hamad issued a royal decree, pardoning 169 prisoners, who have served part of their jail terms for various reasons, without including prisoners of conscience and political prisoners.The pardon was announced on the occasion of Bahrain\u2019s National Day commemorating the establishment of the modern Bahraini state as an Arab and Muslim country, founded by &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":71711,"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":[10,7,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bahrain","category-islam","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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