{"id":12853,"date":"2012-09-25T07:45:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T14:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=12853"},"modified":"2012-09-25T07:45:56","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T14:45:56","slug":"bahrain-protests-intensify-in-manama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=12853","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain Protests intensify in Manama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Protesters, police clash in Bahrain\u2019s capital<\/strong><br \/>\n25 September, 2012 &#8211; Bahrain Freedom Movement<\/p>\n<p>AP &#8211; Witnesses in Bahrain say riot police have clashed with anti-government protesters seeking to shift their demonstrations to the heart of the Gulf kingdom&#8217;s capital.<\/p>\n<p>Security forces fired tear gas and stun grenades in street battles near the historic markets and narrow streets in the center of Manama.<\/p>\n<p>The clashes Friday mark the second such violence in Manama in the past month as Shiite-led protesters try to rattle the Sunni monarchy by bringing rallies back into the capital. Most clashes in recent months have occurred in outlying areas.<\/p>\n<p>More than 50 people have been killed in unrest since February 2011 between Bahrain&#8217;s Western-backed rulers and majority Shiites seeking a greater political voice. <a href=\"http:\/\/vob.org\/en\/index.php?show=news&#038;action=article&#038;id=1839\" target=\"_blank\"> &#8230;source<\/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%3D12853&amp;text=Bahrain+Protests+intensify+in+Manama&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters, police clash in Bahrain\u2019s capital 25 September, 2012 &#8211; Bahrain Freedom Movement AP &#8211; Witnesses in Bahrain say riot police have clashed with anti-government protesters seeking to shift their demonstrations to the heart of the Gulf kingdom&#8217;s capital. Security forces fired tear gas and stun grenades in street battles near the historic markets and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=12853#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":[2397],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12853"}],"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=12853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12854,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12853\/revisions\/12854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}