{"id":32243,"date":"2012-11-06T08:28:14","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T15:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=32243"},"modified":"2012-11-06T08:28:14","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T15:28:14","slug":"reuters-kuwait-takes-hard-line-on-unauthorized-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/11\/06\/reuters-kuwait-takes-hard-line-on-unauthorized-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Reuters: Kuwait takes hard line on unauthorized protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Kuwait&#8217;s government has made clear it is willing and able to suppress unauthorized street protests, saying it must protect public safety, but it risks provoking worse popular unrest by taking a hard line.<\/p>\n<p>Police fired tear gas and smoke bombs to disperse thousands of Kuwaitis protesting over new voting rules late on Sunday. Last month a prominent opposition figure was arrested after speaking at a protest rally where he appealed to the emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, to avoid &#8220;autocratic rule&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/11\/05\/us-kuwait-politics-idUSBRE8A41DK20121105\" title=\"Kuwait takes hard line on protests\" target=\"_blank\"> here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Kuwait&#8217;s government has made clear it is willing and able to suppress unauthorized street protests, saying it must protect public safety, but it risks provoking worse popular unrest by taking a hard line. Police fired tear gas and smoke bombs to disperse thousands of Kuwaitis protesting over new voting rules late on Sunday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32244,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32243\/revisions\/32244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}