{"id":4303,"date":"2011-12-18T11:06:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T18:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4303"},"modified":"2011-12-18T11:06:22","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T18:06:22","slug":"protesters-unyeilding-as-al-khalifa-maintains-violent-crackdown-following-damming-human-rights-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4303","title":{"rendered":"Protesters unyeilding as al Khalifa maintains violent crackdown following damming human rights reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahrain police fire tear gas after funeral<\/strong><br \/>\n(AP) \u2013 3 hours ago &#8211; The Guardian UK<\/p>\n<p>MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) \u2014 Police in Bahrain on Sunday fired tear gas at thousands of demonstrators chanting anti-government slogans after the funeral of an elderly man who witnesses say died from tear gas inhalation.<\/p>\n<p>The unrest Sunday is the fourth straight day of clashes between opposition supporters and security forces along a main highway west of the Bahraini capital Manama. At least 40 people have been killed since February, when Bahrain&#8217;s Shiite majority started campaigning for more rights from Sunni rulers in the Gulf kingdom that is the home of the U.S. Navy&#8217;s 5th Fleet.<\/p>\n<p>Amir al-Mouali said his 73-year-old neighbor, Abdulali Ali Ahmed, was taken to a hospital Saturday morning after struggling to breath during a night of heavy clashes near his home along the Budaiya highway, which connects a string of Shiite villages west of Manama.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Mouali said Ahmed died Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement Sunday, Bahrain&#8217;s Interior Ministry said Ahmed died of natural causes.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrations along the strategic highway has been going since Thursday. The Budaiya highway leads to a junction that is roughly half a kilometer (a quarter of a mile) south of Manama&#8217;s Pearl Square, the former focus of Bahrain&#8217;s Shiite uprisings.<\/p>\n<p>Government forces evicted protesters from the Pearl Square in March and tore down the pearl sculpture that marked the site.<\/p>\n<p>The now heavily guarded square holds great symbolic value for Bahrain&#8217;s opposition movement, and protesters have repeatedly tried to retake it.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/feedarticle\/10001294\" 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%3D4303&amp;text=Protesters+unyeilding+as+al+Khalifa+maintains+violent+crackdown+following+damming+human+rights+reports&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain police fire tear gas after funeral (AP) \u2013 3 hours ago &#8211; The Guardian UK MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) \u2014 Police in Bahrain on Sunday fired tear gas at thousands of demonstrators chanting anti-government slogans after the funeral of an elderly man who witnesses say died from tear gas inhalation. The unrest Sunday is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4303#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":[582],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4303"}],"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=4303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4304,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4303\/revisions\/4304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}