{"id":67038,"date":"2011-02-16T13:19:37","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T09:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=67038"},"modified":"2011-02-16T13:20:16","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T09:20:16","slug":"protestors-in-libya-hope-to-end-gaddafis-41-year-old-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/02\/16\/protestors-in-libya-hope-to-end-gaddafis-41-year-old-rule.html","title":{"rendered":"Protestors in Libya Hope to End Gaddafi&#8217;s 41-Year-Old Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters have clashed\u00a0with police and government supporters in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, reports say.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrators gathered in the early hours of Wednesday morning in front of police headquarters and chanted slogans against the &#8220;corrupt rulers of the country&#8221;, Al Jazeera&#8217;s sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Police fired tear gas and violently dispersed protesters, the sources said without providing\u00a0further details.<\/p>\n<p>The online edition of Libya&#8217;s privately-owned <em>Quryna <\/em>newspaper, which is based in Benghazi, said the\u00a0protesters were armed with petrol bombs and threw stones.<\/p>\n<p>According to the newspaper,\u00a014 people were injured in the clashes, including three demonstrators and 10 security officials.<\/p>\n<p>In a telephone interview with Al Jazeera, Idris Al-Mesmari, a Libyan novelist and writer, said that security officials in civilian clothes came and dispersed protesters by using tear gas, batons and hot water.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Mesmari was arrested hours after the interview, unconfirmed reports say.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-government protesters have also\u00a0called on citizens to observe Thursday\u00a0as a &#8220;Day of Rage&#8221;. They are hoping to emulate recent popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia to end Colonel Muammar Gaddafi&#8217;s 41-year-old rule, reports Al Jazeera English.<\/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>Demonstrators gathered in the early hours of Wednesday morning in front of police headquarters and chanted slogans against the &#8220;corrupt&#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":67025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[21960,10989,21958,21959],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67038"}],"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=67038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}