{"id":67409,"date":"2011-02-17T12:37:50","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T08:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=67409"},"modified":"2011-02-17T12:39:02","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T08:39:02","slug":"at-least-2-people-dead-after-police-move-on-protestors-in-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/02\/17\/at-least-2-people-dead-after-police-move-on-protestors-in-bahrain.html","title":{"rendered":"At Least 2 People Dead After Police Move on Protestors in Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least two people were killed early Thursday morning when Bahraini police swarmed into the capital, Manama, to roust protesters from the Pearl Roundabout, emergency hospital services said.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses said police came in with dozens of vehicles, surrounded the roundabout and began firing &#8220;pellet bullets,&#8221; rubber bullets and tear gas at demonstrators, CNN reports.<\/p>\n<p>The area had become a magnet for pro-democracy activists, angered by the killing of two demonstrators by security forces earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>For two days, protesters were largely left alone by authorities. But around 3:30 am local time Thursday, police changed tactics. Hundreds of white-helmeted police swarmed the roundabout.<\/p>\n<p>There are reports that at least 100 people have been injured.<\/p>\n<p>Bahrain is ruled by a Sunni Muslim royal family, but two-thirds of the population are Shiites. In recent years, younger Shiites have staged violent protests to complain about discrimination, unemployment and corruption, and many Shiites say the country&#8217;s constitution has done little to improve their condition.<\/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>Witnesses said police came in with dozens of vehicles, surrounded the roundabout and began firing &#8220;pellet bullets,&#8221; rubber bullets&#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":67342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[21873,21957,22012,21874],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67409"}],"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=67409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}