{"id":19892,"date":"2014-02-23T09:44:28","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T16:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=19892"},"modified":"2014-02-23T09:44:28","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T16:44:28","slug":"saudi-forces-murder-more-activists-in-new-sweeping-crackdown-in-qatif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=19892","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Forces Murder More Activists in New Sweeping Crackdown in Qatif"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Saudi forces Attack &#038; Beat 2 Protesters to Death in Qatif<\/strong><br \/>\n23 February, 2014 &#8211; Jafria New<\/p>\n<p>Saudi forces arrest some 150 protestersJNN 22 Feb 2014 Riyadh : Saudi regime forces have attacked and killed two anti-government activists at their home in the Qatif governorate of Eastern Province.<\/p>\n<p>The two were killed when regime forces supported by armed vehicles stormed their house the town of Awamiyah. The town has been the scene of violent clashes between anti-regime protesters and Saudi forces for three years.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses said the two were harshly beaten by the regime forces and taken to hospital, where they died.<\/p>\n<p>The move is considered as part of a fresh crackdown on anti-regime protests in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, a Saudi court in Qatif sentenced seven people to jail terms of up to 20 years for taking part in protests in Qatif.<\/p>\n<p>The men were also convicted of chanting slogans against the government as well as possession and making of petrol bombs and throwing them at the security forces.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi security forces have attacked anti-regime protesters in the Qatif region of Eastern Province.<\/p>\n<p>Security forces used live fire to break up anti-government protests in the town of Awamiyah on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In reaction to the attack, protesters set fire to an armored police vehicle during the clashes.<\/p>\n<p>The move is considered as part of a fresh crackdown on anti-regime protests in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>On February 20, two anti-government activists were killed when regime forces supported by armed vehicles stormed a neighborhood in Awamiyah.<\/p>\n<p>One day earlier, a Saudi court sentenced seven people to jail terms of up to 20 years for taking part in protests in Qatif.  <a href=\"http:\/\/jafrianews.com\/2014\/02\/23\/saudi-forces-attack-beat-2-protesters-to-death-in-qatif\/\" 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%3D19892&amp;text=Saudi+Forces+Murder+More+Activists+in+New+Sweeping+Crackdown+in+Qatif&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi forces Attack &#038; Beat 2 Protesters to Death in Qatif 23 February, 2014 &#8211; Jafria New Saudi forces arrest some 150 protestersJNN 22 Feb 2014 Riyadh : Saudi regime forces have attacked and killed two anti-government activists at their home in the Qatif governorate of Eastern Province. The two were killed when regime forces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=19892#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":[4268],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19892"}],"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=19892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19893,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19892\/revisions\/19893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}