{"id":20349,"date":"2013-01-13T21:58:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T20:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/01\/13\/283396\/bahraini-forces-attack-mourners\/"},"modified":"2013-01-13T21:58:04","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T20:58:04","slug":"bahraini-forces-attack-mourners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/bahraini-forces-attack-mourners\/","title":{"rendered":"Bahraini forces attack mourners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\">Mourners pray during a Bahraini funeral. (file photo)<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"divDetailBody\">\n<p>Saudi-backed Bahraini forces have clashed with anti-government protesters at the funeral of a demonstrator, killed by regime forces near Manama.<\/p>\n<p>The clashes broke out on Sunday after Bahraini security forces fired tear gas and birdshot to disperse peaceful protesters, who had attended the funeral of Haj Habib Ibrahim Abdullah.<\/p>\n<p>Abdullah died earlier in the day after inhaling poisonous teargas, fired at a peaceful anti-regime protest in the Malkiya village. The protester\u2019s nine-year-old grandson was also injured in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters called for the release of all jailed activists and demanded that King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa step down.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Since mid-February 2011, thousands of pro-democracy protesters have staged numerous demonstrations in the streets of Bahrain, calling for the Al Khalifa royal family to relinquish power.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nOn March 14, 2011, troops from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates invaded the country to assist the Bahraini government in its crackdown on the peaceful protesters.<\/p>\n<p>According to local sources, scores of people have been killed and hundreds arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Physicians for Human Rights says doctors and nurses have been detained, tortured, or disappeared because they have &#8220;evidence of atrocities committed by the authorities, security forces, and riot police&#8221; in the crackdown on anti-government protesters.<\/p>\n<p>GJH\/HN<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span>Mourners pray during a Bahraini funeral. (file photo)<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Saudi-backed Bahraini forces have clashed with anti-government protesters at the funeral of a demonstrator, killed by regime forces near Manama.<\/p>\n<p>The clashes broke out on Sunday after Bahraini security forces fired tear gas and birdshot to disperse peaceful protesters, who had attended the funeral of Haj Habib Ibrahim Abdullah.<\/p>\n<p>Abdullah died earlier in the day after inhaling poisonous teargas, fired at a peaceful anti-regime protest in the Malkiya village. The protester&rsquo;s nine-year-old grandson was also injured in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters called for the release of all jailed activists and demanded that King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa step down.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Since mid-February 2011, thousands of pro-democracy protesters have staged numerous demonstrations in the streets of Bahrain, calling for the Al Khalifa royal family to relinquish power.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nOn March 14, 2011, troops from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates invaded the country to assist the Bahraini government in its crackdown on the peaceful protesters.<\/p>\n<p>According to local sources, scores of people have been killed and hundreds arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Physicians for Human Rights says doctors and nurses have been detained, tortured, or disappeared because they have &#8220;evidence of atrocities committed by the authorities, security forces, and riot police&#8221; in the crackdown on anti-government protesters.<\/p>\n<p>GJH\/HN<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}