{"id":1601390,"date":"2024-04-09T20:39:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T20:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/09\/bahrains-king-takes-activists-by-surprise-with-pardon-for-at-least-1500-prisoners"},"modified":"2024-04-09T20:39:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T20:39:58","slug":"bahrains-king-takes-activists-by-surprise-with-pardon-for-at-least-1500-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/04\/09\/bahrains-king-takes-activists-by-surprise-with-pardon-for-at-least-1500-prisoners\/","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain\u2019s king takes activists by surprise with pardon for at least 1,500 prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Released detainees include some jailed for political reasons and is UK ally\u2019s biggest amnesty since Arab spring<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/bahrain\">Bahrain<\/a> has unconditionally released more than 1,500 prisoners, including political detainees, in the biggest royal pardon since the 2011 Arab spring uprising.<\/p><p>The amnesty followed years of campaigning inside the country and by international human rights groups but came as a complete surprise to activists.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/09\/bahrains-king-takes-activists-by-surprise-with-pardon-for-at-least-1500-prisoners\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/09\/bahrains-king-takes-activists-by-surprise-with-pardon-for-at-least-1500-prisoners\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Released detainees include some jailed for political reasons and is UK ally\u2019s biggest amnesty since Arab springBahrain has unconditionally released more than 1,500 prisoners, including political detainees, in the biggest royal pardon since the 2011 Ara&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[746,6,1258,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1601390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1601391,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601390\/revisions\/1601391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1601390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1601390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1601390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}