{"id":54849,"date":"2011-01-15T11:40:17","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T07:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=54849"},"modified":"2011-01-15T11:40:17","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T07:40:17","slug":"tunisian-president-flees-to-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/01\/15\/tunisian-president-flees-to-saudi-arabia.html","title":{"rendered":"Tunisian President Flees to Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali has fled with his family to Saudi Arabia, after being forced from office after 23 years in power, reports BBC News.<\/p>\n<p>The 74-year-old leader conceded power after protests over economic issues escalated into rallies against him.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi has taken over as interim president, and a state of emergency has been declared.<\/p>\n<p>Ghannouchi has said he will meet political leaders on Saturday in an attempt to form a government.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of people have died in recent weeks as unrest has swept the country and security forces have cracked down on demonstrations over unemployment, food price rises and corruption.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 74-year-old leader conceded power after protests over economic issues escalated into&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[13914,20286,20287],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}