{"id":5294,"date":"2012-01-25T10:22:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T17:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=5294"},"modified":"2012-01-25T10:22:12","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T17:22:12","slug":"saudi-forces-fire-on-peaceful-shia-protesters-in-qatif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=5294","title":{"rendered":"Saudi forces fire on Peaceful Shia protesters in Qatif"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Saudi forces fire on Peaceful Shia protesters in Qatif<\/strong><br \/>\n25 January, 2012 &#8211; JafriaNews<\/p>\n<p>JNN 24 Jan 2012 Qatif : Several Saudi protesters have been injured in an attack by security forces on a demonstration in the Qatif region of the Eastern Province, Press TV reports.<\/p>\n<p> On Tuesday, Saudi security forces opened fire on demonstrators in Qatif that protested against the ruling Al Saud regime.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the wounded are reportedly in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Nine protesters were also arrested during the attack on Tuesday for involvement in anti-regime demonstrations in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi officials accuse the detainees of \u201cshooting members of security forces\u201d in Eastern Province.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Saudi security forces detained Zaher al-Zaher, a social activist, in the town of Awamiyah in the Eastern Province.<\/p>\n<p>Regime forces also killed 22-year-old protester Essam Mohamed Abu Abdellah and wounded three others in Awamiyah on January 12.<\/p>\n<p>Since February 2011, Saudi protesters have held demonstrations on an almost regular basis in the oil-rich Eastern Province, mainly in Qatif and Awamiyah, calling for the release of all political prisoners, freedom of expression and assembly, and an end to widespread discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>However, the demonstrations have turned into protest rallies against the Al Saud regime, especially since November 2011, when Saudi security forces killed five protesters and injured many others in Eastern Province.<\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, a prominent Shia cleric in Saudi Arabia, has warned the kingdom against the brutal crackdown on protesters in Eastern Province and called on the Al Saud regime to stop bloodshed.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia is a state party to the Arab Charter on Human Rights. Article 24 of the charter states that \u201cevery citizen has the right\u2026 to freely pursue a political activity [and] to freedom of association and peaceful assembly.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/jafrianews.com\/2012\/01\/25\/saudi-forces-fire-on-peaceful-shia-protesters-in-qatif\/\" 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%3D5294&amp;text=Saudi+forces+fire+on+Peaceful+Shia+protesters+in+Qatif&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi forces fire on Peaceful Shia protesters in Qatif 25 January, 2012 &#8211; JafriaNews JNN 24 Jan 2012 Qatif : Several Saudi protesters have been injured in an attack by security forces on a demonstration in the Qatif region of the Eastern Province, Press TV reports. On Tuesday, Saudi security forces opened fire on demonstrators <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=5294#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":[2396],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5294"}],"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=5294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5295,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5294\/revisions\/5295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}