{"id":23582,"date":"2013-01-26T03:13:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T02:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/bahrain-police-clash-protesters-772\/"},"modified":"2013-01-26T03:13:01","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T02:13:01","slug":"bahraini-police-protesters-clash-after-protest-request-denied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/bahraini-police-protesters-clash-after-protest-request-denied\/","title":{"rendered":"Bahraini police, protesters clash after protest request denied"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/files\/news\/bahrain-police-clash-protesters-772\/january-2013-muslim-bahraini.n.jpg\" width=\"370\" height=\"277\" alt=\"Bahraini Shiite Muslim women shout slogans during an anti-regime demonstration in Manama on January 25, 2013.(AFP Photo \/ Mohammed Al-Shakh)\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"VideoDescription\" class=\"grey mv10\">Bahraini Shiite Muslim women shout slogans during an anti-regime demonstration in Manama on January 25, 2013.(AFP Photo \/ Mohammed Al-Shakh)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Bahraini police used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse hundreds of anti-government demonstrators in the capital Manama on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters clashed with riot police after the interior ministry denied a request by the main Shiite-led opposition bloc al-Wefaq to hold a major rally.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a recent agreement to hold talks with the ruling family, opposition leaders insist that the protests will continue.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-government protesters have been holding peaceful demonstrations across Bahrain since February 2011, calling for an end to the Al-Khalifa family&#8217;s nearly four-decade rule. The protesters also demand an end to state discrimination against the country&#8217;s Shiite majority by the predominantly Sunni political class.<\/p>\n<p>Some 80 people are believed to have been killed and thousands arrested since the unrest began. Many opposition figures have been arrested on allegations of conspiring to topple the government.<\/p>\n<p>According to a 2011 report by Human Rights Watch, the government regularly abuses its citizens. The abuses include denying defendants the right to counsel and to present a defense, denial of medical access to protesters injured by security forces, torture and general ill treatment during interrogations.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/files\/news\/bahrain-police-disperse-protesters-772\/bahraini-shiite-muslims-slogans.jpg\" alt=\"Bahraini Shiite Muslims shout slogans while holding a banner reading &quot;We will not stop demanding our rights&quot; during a demonstration in Manama on January 25, 2013.(AFP Photo \/ Mohammed Al-Shakh)\"\/><br \/><small>Bahraini Shiite Muslims shout slogans while holding a banner reading &#8220;We will not stop demanding our rights&#8221; during a demonstration in Manama on January 25, 2013.(AFP Photo \/ Mohammed Al-Shakh)<\/small><\/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>Bahraini Shiite Muslim women shout slogans during an anti-regime demonstration in Manama on January 25, 2013.(AFP Photo \/ Mohammed Al-Shakh)<\/p>\n<p>Bahraini police used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse hundreds of anti-government demonstrators in the&#8230;<\/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-23582","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\/23582","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=23582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}