{"id":152210,"date":"2015-05-19T16:14:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T16:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=152210"},"modified":"2015-05-19T16:18:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T16:18:17","slug":"uk-fails-release-butcher-bahrain-cable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/uk-fails-release-butcher-bahrain-cable\/","title":{"rendered":"UK fails to release \u2018Butcher of Bahrain\u2019 cable"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>A British court has ruled against the release of a 1977 cable between the government and a ruthless British military officer in charge of police in Bahrain.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Human rights activists have lost their battle at Britain\u2019s Information Rights Tribunal to force the government to release a 38-year-old diplomatic cable that could shed light on the UK\u2019s relationship with the authoritarian regime in Bahrain, the Independent reported Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling came as the king of the Persian Gulf state came to Britain this weekend to attend the Royal Windsor Horse Show, a sign of continuing good relations between the UK and Bahrain, where the Royal Navy is building a major new military base.<\/p>\n<p>In a ruling that disappointed campaigners, an information tribunal has ruled that there should be only a partial disclosure of the contents of the cable from 1977, detailing conversations between British officials and Ian Henderson, a British military officer who ran the police in the Persian Gulf monarchy for 30 years and was dubbed the \u201cButcher of Bahrain.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/05\/17\/411530\/UK-court-Butcher-Bahrain-cable\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British court has ruled against the release of a 1977 cable between the government and a ruthless British military officer in charge of police in Bahrain. Human rights activists have lost their battle at Britain\u2019s Information Rights Tribunal to force the government to release a 38-year-old diplomatic cable that could shed light on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":152211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1615],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-152210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}