{"id":3553,"date":"2011-10-14T14:13:43","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T21:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=3553"},"modified":"2011-10-14T14:13:43","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T21:13:43","slug":"the-beat-goes-on-its-friday-in-bahrain-security-forces-attack-arrest-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=3553","title":{"rendered":"The beat goes on&#8230;.  it&#8217;s Friday in Bahrain, Security Forces attack, arrest protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahrain forces attack, arrest protesters<\/strong><br \/>\nOct 14th, 2011 &#8211; Bahrain &#8211; By shiapost<\/p>\n<p>A female protester has been injured and several others have been arrested as regime forces in Bahrain continue to attack peaceful demonstrators.  The protesters were chanting anti-regime slogans on Friday when they were targeted with tear gas and sound grenades.<\/p>\n<p>The violence left one woman seriously wounded in the town of Nuwaidrat where regime forces engaged in heavy clashes with anti-government protesters.  Regime forces have also attacked female protesters in the village of Karzakan.<\/p>\n<p>Several demonstrators were arrested after the Saudi-backed forces attempted to disperse protests in towns and villages around the capital, Manama.  Tens of thousands of demonstrators staged a rally in the eastern village of Buri, demanding an independent judiciary system.<\/p>\n<p>The mass rally, called by Bahrain\u2019s main political bloc al-Wefaq, came despite stepped up security measures in the Persian Gulf Kingdom.  Al-Wefaq has been organizing weekly rallies every week demanding political and social reforms in the tiny Persian Gulf sheikhdom.<\/p>\n<p>Scores of people have been killed and hundreds more have been arrested in the brutal crackdown of Saudi-backed Bahraini regime forces on peaceful protesters since anti-government protests began in the Persian Gulf kingdom in mid-February.<a href=\"http:\/\/shiapost.com\/?p=6969\">   &#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%3D3553&amp;text=The+beat+goes+on....++it%27s+Friday+in+Bahrain%2C+Security+Forces+attack%2C+arrest+protesters+&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain forces attack, arrest protesters Oct 14th, 2011 &#8211; Bahrain &#8211; By shiapost A female protester has been injured and several others have been arrested as regime forces in Bahrain continue to attack peaceful demonstrators. The protesters were chanting anti-regime slogans on Friday when they were targeted with tear gas and sound grenades. The violence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=3553#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[662],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553"}],"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=3553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}