{"id":17322,"date":"2013-05-06T12:59:29","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T18:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=17322"},"modified":"2013-05-06T12:59:29","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T18:59:29","slug":"bahrain-shiites-protest-to-demand-prisoners-be-freed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=17322","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain Shiites protest to demand prisoners be freed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahrain Shiites protest to demand prisoners be freed<\/strong><br \/>\n03 May 2013 &#8211; France 24 <\/p>\n<p>AFP &#8211; Hundreds of people from Bahrain&#8217;s Shiite Muslim majority clashed with police on Friday as they demonstrated to demand the release of Shiite prisoners held by the kingdom&#8217;s Sunni-dominated government, witnesses said.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrators, who included women, shouted &#8220;Free the prisoners!&#8221; and held up photos of people being held.<\/p>\n<p>The protests in Shiite villages near the capital Manama were in response to a call from the radical February 14 Revolution Youth Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Shiites, inspired by the Arab Spring in 2011, have been pushing to be given a greater say in the small country&#8217;s affairs.<\/p>\n<p>The kingdom was rocked by a month-long uprising, which was crushed with the help of Gulf troops led by neighbouring Saudi Arabia, but protests continue and frequently turn violent. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20130503-bahrain-shiites-protest-demand-prisoners-be-freed\" 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%3D17322&amp;text=Bahrain+Shiites+protest+to+demand+prisoners+be+freed&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain Shiites protest to demand prisoners be freed 03 May 2013 &#8211; France 24 AFP &#8211; Hundreds of people from Bahrain&#8217;s Shiite Muslim majority clashed with police on Friday as they demonstrated to demand the release of Shiite prisoners held by the kingdom&#8217;s Sunni-dominated government, witnesses said. Demonstrators, who included women, shouted &#8220;Free the prisoners!&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=17322#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":[1815],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17322"}],"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=17322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17324,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17322\/revisions\/17324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}