{"id":14320,"date":"2012-11-26T11:33:08","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T18:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=14320"},"modified":"2012-11-26T11:33:08","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T18:33:08","slug":"defending-the-right-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=14320","title":{"rendered":"Defending the Right to Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/right2return.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/right2return-e1353954243138.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\" \" width=\"425\" height=\"275\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14321\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Street clashes between protesters, riot police erupt near former Bahrain protest hub<\/strong><br \/>\nBy Associated Press &#8211; 26 November, 2012<\/p>\n<p>MANAMA, Bahrain \u2014 Riot police in Bahrain have fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse thousands of marchers trying to reach a heavily guarded square that was once the hub of their anti-government uprising.<\/p>\n<p>The clash followed ceremonies Monday to mark the end of Shiite religious commemorations known as Ashoura. It was the heaviest clash in months near Pearl Square, where Shiite-led protesters gathered in February 2011 to demand a greater political voice in the Sunni-ruled Gulf kingdom. It has since been closed off.<\/p>\n<p>The street battles spilled into surrounding Shiite neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>Bahraini authorities have outlawed protest marches in an attempt to quell growing violence in the more than 21-month-old unrest. Shiite leaders say they plan more marches in defiance of the order.<\/p>\n<p>Bahrain is home to the U.S. Navy\u2019s 5th Fleet. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle_east\/street-clashes-between-protesters-riot-police-erupt-near-former-bahrain-protest-hub\/2012\/11\/26\/c7ea1dec-37dc-11e2-9258-ac7c78d5c680_story.html\" 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%3D14320&amp;text=Defending+the+Right+to+Return&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Street clashes between protesters, riot police erupt near former Bahrain protest hub By Associated Press &#8211; 26 November, 2012 MANAMA, Bahrain \u2014 Riot police in Bahrain have fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse thousands of marchers trying to reach a heavily guarded square that was once the hub of their anti-government uprising. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=14320#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":[2464],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14320"}],"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=14320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14323,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14320\/revisions\/14323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}