{"id":6262,"date":"2012-02-23T15:02:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T22:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=6262"},"modified":"2012-02-23T15:02:26","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T22:02:26","slug":"new-protest-in-awamiyah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=6262","title":{"rendered":"New Protest in Awamiyah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Saudi regime forces arrest protesters in Awamiyah<\/strong><br \/>\n23 February, 2012 &#8211; By shiapost<\/p>\n<p>Saudi police have arrested a number of demonstrators after anti-regime protesters took to the streets in Eastern Province, despite threats of crackdown on pro-reform protests in the kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrations were held on Thursday in several towns and villages in the oil-rich region, including the towns of Qatif and Awamiyah.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters demanded that their rights be upheld, and also called for the prosecution of those who opened fire on demonstrators a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>They also expressed solidarity with the revolution in neighboring Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi regime forces attacked the protests and arrested several protesters in Awamiyah.<\/p>\n<p>The Thursday demonstrations are the latest in a wave of anti-government rallies in Eastern Province.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi officials in Riyadh have recently threatened to crack down on any dissidents in the region. Activists have, however, vowed to continue their movement.<\/p>\n<p>Security forces have killed several anti-regime protesters since last November.   <a href=\"http:\/\/shiapost.com\/?p=12654\" 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%3D6262&amp;text=New+Protest+in+Awamiyah&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi regime forces arrest protesters in Awamiyah 23 February, 2012 &#8211; By shiapost Saudi police have arrested a number of demonstrators after anti-regime protesters took to the streets in Eastern Province, despite threats of crackdown on pro-reform protests in the kingdom. Demonstrations were held on Thursday in several towns and villages in the oil-rich region, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=6262#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":[1879],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6262"}],"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=6262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6263,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6262\/revisions\/6263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}