{"id":13589,"date":"2012-10-25T10:18:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T17:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=13589"},"modified":"2012-10-25T10:18:16","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T17:18:16","slug":"massive-anti-regime-protest-rally-planned-for-friday-in-manama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=13589","title":{"rendered":"Massive Anti-Regime Protest Rally Planned for Friday in Manama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahrainis to Stage Massive Anti-Regime Protest Rally in Manama Friday<\/strong><br \/>\n24 October, 2012 &#8211; Fars<\/p>\n<p>TEHRAN (FNA)- Bahraini activists invited people throughout the country to stage a massive anti-regime protest rally in Manama on Friday to show their wrath and condemnation of the several-day-long siege of the al-Akr town by the al-Khalifa army and security forces.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition group, the Coalition of the Youth of the February 14th Revolution, in a statement, said that a massive protest rally will be held in Manama on Friday to voice sympathy and solidarity with the resistant people of the al-Akr town, adding that &#8220;Break the Siege of Al-Akr&#8221; will be the main motto to be chanted by the people in Friday rally.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the Bahraini people are due to hold a ceremony after the Thursday noon prayers titled &#8216;Prayers Revolution&#8217; to pray for the improvement of freedom and human rights situation in their country.<\/p>\n<p>Bahrain&#8217;s police and security forces surrounded al-Akr town, South of Manama, last week and cut the roads and transfer of food supplies to the town after a bomb attack on Thursday allegedly killed one policeman and injured another following clashes between protesters and the Saudi-backed security services.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Al-Khalifa regime has imposed a siege on the al-Akr town and prevents its people&#8217;s access to food supplies under the pretext of the killing of one of its elements who was involved in the suppression of people&#8217;s peaceful protests in the town,&#8221; Secretary-General of Bahrain&#8217;s National Democrat Society Fazzel Abbas said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed the necessity for an end to the al-Akr siege and investigations into the killing of the policeman in the city, and told the Iran-based al-Alam news network that the killed person was a foreign national.<\/p>\n<p>Bahrain&#8217;s al-Vafa al-Islami stream also on Sunday condemned the al-Akr siege, and underlined, &#8220;The Bahraini regime&#8217;s story about the killing of a policemen in al-Akr village is an excuse to assume the extensive deracination of people as permitted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anti-government protesters have been holding peaceful demonstrations across Bahrain since mid-February 2011, calling for an end to the al-Khalifa dynasty.<\/p>\n<p>Violence against the defenseless people escalated after a Saudi-led conglomerate of police, security and military forces from the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) member states &#8211; Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar &#8211; were dispatched to the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom on March 13, 2011, to help Manama crack down on peaceful protestors.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of protesters have been killed by the al-Khalifa&#8217;s security forces, hundreds have gone missing and thousands of others have been injured since the start of the Islamic Awakening in the tiny Persian Gulf country. <a href=\"http:\/\/english.farsnews.com\/newstext.php?nn=9107114710\" 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%3D13589&amp;text=Massive+Anti-Regime+Protest+Rally+Planned+for+Friday+in+Manama&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrainis to Stage Massive Anti-Regime Protest Rally in Manama Friday 24 October, 2012 &#8211; Fars TEHRAN (FNA)- Bahraini activists invited people throughout the country to stage a massive anti-regime protest rally in Manama on Friday to show their wrath and condemnation of the several-day-long siege of the al-Akr town by the al-Khalifa army and security <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=13589#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":[778],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13589"}],"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=13589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13590,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13589\/revisions\/13590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}