{"id":5081,"date":"2012-01-18T08:47:18","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T15:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=5081"},"modified":"2012-01-18T08:47:18","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T15:47:18","slug":"bahrain-activists-defy-ban-on-downtown-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=5081","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain: Activists defy ban on downtown protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahrain: Activists defy ban on downtown protest<\/strong><br \/>\n(AP) \u2013 39 minutes ago <\/p>\n<p>MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) \u2014 Witnesses say Bahraini riot police have chased anti-government protesters out of the center of the island kingdom&#8217;s capital.<\/p>\n<p>The scuffles Wednesday came a day after authorities denied the country&#8217;s main Shiite-backed opposition party, Al Wefaq, permission to hold protests in central Manama.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses say hundreds of protesters were scattered throughout the old city and diplomatic area, and police used stun grenades to disperse some of them.<\/p>\n<p>Bahrain&#8217;s majority Shiites have been the driving force behind widespread protests inspired by the Arab Spring uprisings over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday&#8217;s protests erupted a day before Bahrain hosts an air show that runs through Saturday.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hgE83LgjRDAmeryg3YZ9pUGPGT3w?docId=6e073a13eac84abc9a87dd86e5840541\" 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%3D5081&amp;text=Bahrain%3A+Activists+defy+ban+on+downtown+protest&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain: Activists defy ban on downtown protest (AP) \u2013 39 minutes ago MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) \u2014 Witnesses say Bahraini riot police have chased anti-government protesters out of the center of the island kingdom&#8217;s capital. The scuffles Wednesday came a day after authorities denied the country&#8217;s main Shiite-backed opposition party, Al Wefaq, permission to hold protests <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=5081#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":[2358],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081"}],"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=5081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5082,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081\/revisions\/5082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}