{"id":309370,"date":"2017-05-23T08:03:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T07:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-secretary-criticized-for-praising-lack-of-anti-trump-protests-in-ksa\/"},"modified":"2017-05-23T08:03:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T07:03:04","slug":"us-secretary-criticized-for-praising-lack-of-anti-trump-protests-in-ksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-secretary-criticized-for-praising-lack-of-anti-trump-protests-in-ksa\/","title":{"rendered":"US secretary criticized for praising lack of anti-Trump protests in KSa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has come under fire for boasting about lack of protests against President Donald Trump and his team during their recent visit to Saudi Arabia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was not a single hint of a protester anywhere there during the whole time we were there,\u201d Ross told CNBC on Monday. \u201cNot one guy with a bad placard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ross accompanied Trump as he headed to Saudi Arabia in the first leg of his maiden overseas trip on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The high-profile visit coincided with the Riyadh regime\u2019s heavy-handed crackdown in Amawiyah, a besieged town in the kingdom\u2019s Shia-populated Eastern Province.<\/p>\n<p>The city has been under heavy shelling attacks by government forces since May 10, when new clashes erupted following the demolition of the historic al-Mosara neighborhood for a planned development project.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ross, however, said he saw no signs of unrest during the visit and the country was in \u201ca genuinely good mood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Human Rights Watch&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/05\/23\/522885\/US-Trump-Ross-Saudi-protests-HRW\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has come under fire for boasting about lack of protests against President Donald Trump and his team during their recent visit to Saudi Arabia. \u201cThere was not a single hint of a protester anywhere there during the whole time we were there,\u201d Ross told CNBC on Monday. \u201cNot one guy [&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-309370","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\/309370","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=309370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}