{"id":15989,"date":"2013-01-29T10:29:11","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T17:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=15989"},"modified":"2013-01-29T10:29:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T17:29:11","slug":"protest-banned-and-crushed-is-dialogue-silenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=15989","title":{"rendered":"Protest Banned and Crushed is Dialogue Silenced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahrainis Protest Dialogue, Dispersed By Police<\/strong><br \/>\n26 January, 2013 &#8211; POMED<\/p>\n<p>Police used tear gas and stun grenades in Manama yesterday to break up protests organized by Shi\u2019ite opposition groups. The Interior Ministry had previously refused to give permission for the demonstration, claiming it was illegal and promising punishment for participants. The groups called for protests in spite of their decision to participate in reconciliation talks proposed by the government. A spokesman for al Wefaq, the main opposition party, said, \u201cAgreeing to dialogue doesn\u2019t mean that we stop our protests.\u201d Friday\u2019s protests called for rejection of these government-proposed talks.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition groups have voiced concerns about the talks since the government issued the invitation. Some have objected to the talks due to the government\u2019s role as a moderator rather than a participant in them, claiming the government is the only entity that can implement any agreements regarding the parties\u2019 demands for social and political reform. Wefaq leader Khalil al-Marzook also expressed caution regarding the credibility of the process.<\/p>\n<p>A government official stated on Saturday that talks will begin next week or early in February.  <a href=\"http:\/\/pomed.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/bahrainis-protest-dialogue-dispersed-by-police.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%3D15989&amp;text=Protest+Banned+and+Crushed+is+Dialogue+Silenced&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrainis Protest Dialogue, Dispersed By Police 26 January, 2013 &#8211; POMED Police used tear gas and stun grenades in Manama yesterday to break up protests organized by Shi\u2019ite opposition groups. The Interior Ministry had previously refused to give permission for the demonstration, claiming it was illegal and promising punishment for participants. The groups called for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=15989#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":[760],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15989"}],"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=15989"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15991,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15989\/revisions\/15991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}