{"id":10795,"date":"2012-07-13T12:18:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T19:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=10795"},"modified":"2012-07-13T12:18:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T19:18:00","slug":"king-abdullah-with-each-violent-deed-the-end-of-bloody-reign-grows-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=10795","title":{"rendered":"King Abdullah, with each violent deed the end of bloody reign grows closer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Saudi protesters rally in Qatif to demand release of Shia cleric<\/strong><br \/>\n13 July, 2012 &#8211; Shia Post<\/p>\n<p>Tension has been high in Saudi Arabia\u2019s Eastern Province since last week after security forces detained Sheikh Nemr al-Nemr with almost daily protest rallies in the oil-rich region.<\/p>\n<p>At least three people have been killed and many others injured in Riyadh\u2019s crackdown on demonstrations against the detention of al-Nemr.<\/p>\n<p>    There has been no word on al-Nemr\u2019s condition and whereabouts. The cleric was injured when regime forces attacked his car in Awamiyah to arrest him.<\/p>\n<p>Since February 2011, Saudis have held demonstrations on an almost regular basis in the Kingdom\u2019s Eastern Province, mainly in Qatif and Awamiyah, calling for the release of all political prisoners, freedom of expression and assembly, and an end to economic and religious discrimination against the eastern region.<\/p>\n<p>However, the demonstrations have turned into protests against the Al Saud regime, especially since November 2011, when Saudi security forces killed five protesters and injured many others in the province.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.shiapost.com\/?p=4525\" target=\"_blank\"> &#8230;more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D10795&amp;text=King+Abdullah%2C+with+each+violent+deed+the+end+of+bloody+reign+grows+closer&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi protesters rally in Qatif to demand release of Shia cleric 13 July, 2012 &#8211; Shia Post Tension has been high in Saudi Arabia\u2019s Eastern Province since last week after security forces detained Sheikh Nemr al-Nemr with almost daily protest rallies in the oil-rich region. At least three people have been killed and many others <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=10795#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[3192],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10795"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10797,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10795\/revisions\/10797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}