{"id":9945,"date":"2012-05-18T06:52:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T13:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=9945"},"modified":"2012-05-18T06:52:08","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T13:52:08","slug":"protests-in-syria-welcome-sight-after-months-of-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=9945","title":{"rendered":"Protests in Syria welcome sight after months of Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Protesters join biggest demo in Syria&#8217;s Aleppo: activists<\/strong><br \/>\n18 May, 2012 &#8211; Agence France Presse &#8211; The Daily Star<\/p>\n<p>BEIRUT: Protesters took to the streets on Friday for the biggest demonstration in the Syrian city of Aleppo since the uprising against Bashar Assad&#8217;s regime began 15 months ago, monitors said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These are the most important events in Aleppo since the beginning of the revolt. Thousands of people demonstrated in various districts despite the repression,&#8221; Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>He said the tens of thousands of protesters on the streets across the country, are &#8220;the largest gatherings since the ceasefire went into effect&#8221; on April 12.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/News\/Middle-East\/2012\/May-18\/173847-protesters-join-biggest-demo-in-syrias-aleppo-activists.ashx#axzz1vEG3kgVW\" 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%3D9945&amp;text=Protests+in+Syria+welcome+sight+after+months+of+Violence&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters join biggest demo in Syria&#8217;s Aleppo: activists 18 May, 2012 &#8211; Agence France Presse &#8211; The Daily Star BEIRUT: Protesters took to the streets on Friday for the biggest demonstration in the Syrian city of Aleppo since the uprising against Bashar Assad&#8217;s regime began 15 months ago, monitors said. &#8220;These are the most important <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=9945#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":[3044],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9945"}],"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=9945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9947,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9945\/revisions\/9947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}