{"id":283804,"date":"2016-12-10T16:24:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T15:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/protesters-demand-corbyn-take-stronger-action-against-syria-war\/"},"modified":"2016-12-10T16:24:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T15:24:59","slug":"protesters-demand-corbyn-take-stronger-action-against-syria-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/protesters-demand-corbyn-take-stronger-action-against-syria-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters demand Corbyn take stronger action against Syria war"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Human rights campaigners have disrupted a speech by leader of the UK Labour Party<em>, <\/em>Jeremy Corbyn, calling on him to demand stronger action in parliament against the ongoing war in Syria.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Demonstrators led by human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell stood in front of Corbyn on Saturday, holding up banners with slogans including, \u201cStep up and demand action in Syria\u201d and \u201cEnd the suffering in Aleppo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Corbyn halted his speech when Tatchell shouted over him that \u201chundreds of thousands of life are at risk. We expect the leader of the Labour Party to speak out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe haven\u2019t heard the leader of the Labour Party speak out enough to demand UK air drops to besieged civilians who are dying in their thousands,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Corbyn in response said his party made it clear that it opposed the war in Syria and had called for an end to the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>He said that \u201cwe do think the bombing should end, we do think there should be a ceasefire, we do think&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/12\/10\/497267\/UK-Syria-war-human-rights-Jeremy-Corbyn\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights campaigners have disrupted a speech by leader of the UK Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, calling on him to demand stronger action in parliament against the ongoing war in Syria. Demonstrators led by human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell stood in front of Corbyn on Saturday, holding up banners with slogans including, \u201cStep up and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-283804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283804","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}