{"id":1132,"date":"2012-01-28T09:48:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T09:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/28\/i-saw-death-canadian-in-bahrain-says-hes\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:29:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:29:16","slug":"i-saw-death-canadian-in-bahrain-says-hes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/01\/28\/i-saw-death-canadian-in-bahrain-says-hes\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I saw death&#8217;: Canadian in Bahrain says he&#8217;s hiding to escape his torturers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/1069542411\/i-saw-death-canadian-in-bahrain-says-he-s-hiding-to-escape-his-torturers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/1069542411\/i-saw-death-canadian-in-bahrain-says-he-s-hiding-to-escape-his-torturers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/FZXhE5AIkzkbTBiPj7pv5Dl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><br \/> Terrified that he will be beaten to death if he is dragged back to prison, a Kuwait-born Canadian citizen says he has gone into hiding in Bahrain after losing his appeal of his conviction for breaking the country&rsquo;s illegal assembly laws.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/news\/death+Canadian+Bahrain+says+hiding+escape+torturers\/6057653\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Via canada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; Liberties Terrified that he will be beaten to death if he is dragged back to prison, a Kuwait-born Canadian citizen says he has gone into hiding in Bahrain after losing his appeal of his conviction &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/01\/28\/i-saw-death-canadian-in-bahrain-says-hes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":940,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/07\/22\/ea-worldview-home-bahrain-1st-hand-special\/","url_meta":{"origin":1132,"position":0},"title":"EA WorldView &#8211; Home &#8211; Bahrain 1st-Hand Special: The Coupled Suffering of Younis and Amina\u00a0Ashoori","author":"aslam","date":"July 22, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"See on Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesOn the morning of 20 March 2011, 60-year-old Younis Ashoori went to Muharraq Maternity Hospital as usual, where he worked as an administrator. 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