{"id":33288,"date":"2012-12-22T13:04:19","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T20:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=33288"},"modified":"2012-12-22T13:04:19","modified_gmt":"2012-12-22T20:04:19","slug":"the-australian-bahrain-protesters-demand-departure-of-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/12\/22\/the-australian-bahrain-protesters-demand-departure-of-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"The Australian: Bahrain protesters demand departure of PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They said the demonstrators marched in the village of Diya near the capital Manama, chanting &#8220;Resign, Khalifa!&#8221; and waving Bahraini flags.<\/p>\n<p>The Shi&#8217;ite opposition in the tiny Sunni-ruled Gulf kingdom is led by al-Wefaq, which wants a government of technocrats to rule in a transition leading to a constitutional monarchy.<\/p>\n<p>Since February last year, Bahrain has been shaken by opposition protests that the authorities accuse of being exploited by Shi&#8217;ite Iran across the Gulf.<\/p>\n<p>At least 80 people have died since the start of the unrest in February 2011, according to the International Federation of Human Rights.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition insists that the premier stand down and that the government be headed by the leader of the elected majority in parliament<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/news\/breaking-news\/bahrain-protesters-demand-departure-of-pm\/story-fn3dxix6-1226542484929\" title=\"Bahrain \">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They said the demonstrators marched in the village of Diya near the capital Manama, chanting &#8220;Resign, Khalifa!&#8221; and waving Bahraini flags. The Shi&#8217;ite opposition in the tiny Sunni-ruled Gulf kingdom is led by al-Wefaq, which wants a government of technocrats to rule in a transition leading to a constitutional monarchy. Since February last year, Bahrain [&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-33288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33288","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=33288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33289,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33288\/revisions\/33289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}