{"id":90362,"date":"2013-11-10T21:48:06","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T20:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/clashes-in-riyadh-as-african-migrant-workers-protest-police-crackdown\/"},"modified":"2013-11-10T21:48:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T20:48:06","slug":"clashes-in-riyadh-as-african-migrant-workers-protest-police-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/clashes-in-riyadh-as-african-migrant-workers-protest-police-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Clashes in Riyadh as African Migrant Workers Protest Police Crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Two people died and dozens were wounded Saturday in what the state-backed <em>Saudi Press Agency<\/em> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/11\/10\/world\/meast\/saudi-arabia-visa-protests\/\">is calling<\/a> clashes between African migrants and Saudi security forces in Saudi Arabia&#8217;s capitol Riyadh.<\/p>\n<p>The clashes followed protests against harsh crackdown on suspected undocumented workers, which <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702303309504579188832147386314\">escalated in early November<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702303309504579188832147386314\">reports<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A 32-year-old Saudi man hit by hurled stones and an unidentified man believed to be a foreign worker died in the clashes in Riyadh&#8217;s Manfouah district of African migrant workers, Riyadh police spokesman Fawaz al Maiman said. At least 68 people were wounded. Police arrested 561 workers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/11\/10\/world\/meast\/saudi-arabia-visa-protests\/\">According to<\/a> <em>CNN<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Reports circulated last week of the death of an Ethiopian man, prompting the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry to issue a statement that it &#8220;condemned the killing of an Ethiopian and mistreatment of its citizens residing in Saudi Arabia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Independent<\/em> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/middle-east\/saudi-arabia-riots-two-dead-after-clashes-between-locals-and-foreign-workers-in-riyadh-8931414.html\">reports<\/a> that the crackdown on suspected undocumented workers continues to escalate:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>On Sunday thousands of African migrants residing illegally in Riyadh surrendered to police. More than 30,000 people have already been rounded up, according to officials.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>_____________________<\/p>\n<p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2013\/11\/10-0\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Clashes in Riyadh as African Migrant Workers Protest Police Crackdown\">Common Dreams<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two people died and dozens were wounded Saturday in what the state-backed Saudi Press Agency is calling clashes between African migrants and Saudi security forces in Saudi Arabia&#8217;s capitol Riyadh. The clashes followed protests against harsh crackdown on suspected undocumented workers, which escalated in early November. The Wall Street Journal reports A 32-year-old Saudi man [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":90363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-90362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}