{"id":7868,"date":"2019-07-31T11:09:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T11:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7868-un-slams-bahrain-s-execution-of-dissidents\/"},"modified":"2019-07-31T11:09:11","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T11:09:11","slug":"un-slams-bahrain-s-execution-of-dissidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7868-un-slams-bahrain-s-execution-of-dissidents\/","title":{"rendered":"UN slams Bahrain\u2019s execution of dissidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">The United Nations strongly condemned the execution of two young activists in Bahrain, as the ruling Al Khalifa regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed crackdown on<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The United Nations strongly condemned the execution of two young activists in Bahrain, as the ruling Al Khalifa regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed crackdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy activists in the Persian Gulf kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe strongly condemn the execution on July 26 in Manama of two Bahraini citizens, Ali Mohamed Hakeem al-Arab, 25, and Ahmed Isa al-Malali, 24. The executions went ahead on Friday night, despite concerns expressed by the High Commissioner, following two earlier public statements by UN human rights experts \u2026 that the men\u2019s \u201cconfessions\u201d were obtained through torture, and about lack of due process and fair trial guarantees. A third man, a migrant worker, was also executed after being convicted of murder,\u201d Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Rupert Colville, said in the Swiss city of Geneva on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cWe are also very concerned about the future of other detainees, who remain on death row in Bahrain and are at risk of imminent execution. We call on the Bahraini government to halt all pending executions, and ensure a re-trial of these and other defendants whose rights may have been violated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe fully support the call by the UN experts for the Bahraini authorities to establish an official moratorium on all executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty,\u201d Colville said.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Arab and al-Malali were executed at the notorious Jaw Prison, south of the capital Manama, after private meetings with their families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations strongly condemned the execution of two young activists in Bahrain, as the ruling Al Khalifa regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed crackdown on The United Nations strongly condemned the execution of two young activists in Bahrain, as the ruling Al Khalifa regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed crackdown on political dissidents and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19635,"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":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>UN slams Bahrain\u2019s execution of dissidents - Shia Waves<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7868-un-slams-bahrain-s-execution-of-dissidents\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UN slams Bahrain\u2019s execution of dissidents - Shia Waves\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The United Nations strongly condemned the execution of two young activists in Bahrain, as the ruling Al Khalifa regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed crackdown on The United Nations strongly condemned the execution of two young activists in Bahrain, as the ruling Al Khalifa regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed crackdown on political dissidents and &hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7868-un-slams-bahrain-s-execution-of-dissidents\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Shia Waves\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-07-31T11:09:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/images_2019_07_31_42980_857.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Behnam\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Behnam\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7868-un-slams-bahrain-s-execution-of-dissidents\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7868-un-slams-bahrain-s-execution-of-dissidents\/\",\"name\":\"UN slams Bahrain\u2019s execution of dissidents - Shia Waves\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7868-un-slams-bahrain-s-execution-of-dissidents\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7868-un-slams-bahrain-s-execution-of-dissidents\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/images_2019_07_31_42980_857.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-07-31T11:09:11+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-07-31T11:09:11+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/#\/schema\/person\/2dfb3393817ea58c2022356ed0dc4ed9\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7868-un-slams-bahrain-s-execution-of-dissidents\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7868-un-slams-bahrain-s-execution-of-dissidents\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7868-un-slams-bahrain-s-execution-of-dissidents\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/images_2019_07_31_42980_857.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/images_2019_07_31_42980_857.jpg\",\"width\":600,\"height\":400},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7868-un-slams-bahrain-s-execution-of-dissidents\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"UN slams Bahrain\u2019s execution of dissidents\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/\",\"name\":\"Shia Waves\",\"description\":\"Just another ShiaWaves site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/#\/schema\/person\/2dfb3393817ea58c2022356ed0dc4ed9\",\"name\":\"Behnam\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/author\/mahdi007\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"UN slams Bahrain\u2019s execution of dissidents - Shia Waves","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7868-un-slams-bahrain-s-execution-of-dissidents\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"UN slams Bahrain\u2019s execution of dissidents - Shia Waves","og_description":"The United Nations strongly condemned the execution of two young activists in Bahrain, as the ruling Al Khalifa regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed crackdown on The United Nations strongly condemned the execution of two young activists in Bahrain, as the ruling Al Khalifa regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed crackdown on political dissidents and &hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7868-un-slams-bahrain-s-execution-of-dissidents\/","og_site_name":"Shia Waves","article_published_time":"2019-07-31T11:09:11+00:00","og_image":[{"width":600,"height":400,"url":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/images_2019_07_31_42980_857.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Behnam","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Behnam","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7868-un-slams-bahrain-s-execution-of-dissidents\/","url":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7868-un-slams-bahrain-s-execution-of-dissidents\/","name":"UN slams Bahrain\u2019s execution of dissidents - Shia Waves","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7868-un-slams-bahrain-s-execution-of-dissidents\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7868-un-slams-bahrain-s-execution-of-dissidents\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/images_2019_07_31_42980_857.jpg","datePublished":"2019-07-31T11:09:11+00:00","dateModified":"2019-07-31T11:09:11+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/#\/schema\/person\/2dfb3393817ea58c2022356ed0dc4ed9"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7868-un-slams-bahrain-s-execution-of-dissidents\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7868-un-slams-bahrain-s-execution-of-dissidents\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7868-un-slams-bahrain-s-execution-of-dissidents\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/images_2019_07_31_42980_857.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/images_2019_07_31_42980_857.jpg","width":600,"height":400},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7868-un-slams-bahrain-s-execution-of-dissidents\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"UN slams Bahrain\u2019s execution of dissidents"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/#website","url":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/","name":"Shia Waves","description":"Just another ShiaWaves site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/#\/schema\/person\/2dfb3393817ea58c2022356ed0dc4ed9","name":"Behnam","url":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/author\/mahdi007\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}