{"id":66579,"date":"2011-02-15T13:36:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T09:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=66579"},"modified":"2011-02-15T13:37:35","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T09:37:35","slug":"bahrain-police-fire-at-protestors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/02\/15\/bahrain-police-fire-at-protestors.html","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain Police Fire at Protestors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least one person has reportedly been killed and several others injured after riot police in Bahrain opened fire at protesters holding a funeral service for a man killed during protests in the kingdom a day earlier, reports Al Jazeera English.<\/p>\n<p>Fadhel Ali Almatrook was hit with a bird-shotgun in the capital, Manama, on Tuesday morning, Maryam Alkhawaja, head of foreign relations at the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This morning\u00a0the protesters were\u00a0walking from the hospital to the cemetery and they got attacked by the riot police,&#8221; Alkhawaja said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thousands of people are marching in the streets, demanding the removal of the regime &#8211; police fired tear gas and bird shot, using excessive force &#8211; that is why people got hurt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At least 25 people were reported to have been treated for injuries in hospital. Al Jazeera&#8217;s correspondent in Bahrain, who we cannot name for his own safety, said that police were taking a very heavy handed approach to the protesters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police fired on the protesters this morning, but they showed very strong resistance,&#8221; our\u00a0correspondent said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It seems like the funeral procession was allowed to continue, but police are playing a cat-and-mouse game with the protesters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The incident comes a day after\u00a0demonstrators observed a &#8216;Day of Rage&#8217;, apparently after being inspired by the recent uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia.<\/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>At least one person has reportedly been killed and several others injured after riot police in Bahrain opened fire at protesters holding a&#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":66526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[21873,21874],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66579"}],"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=66579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}