{"id":14461,"date":"2018-09-09T17:25:41","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T17:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=14461"},"modified":"2018-09-09T17:25:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T17:25:41","slug":"iraq-deadly-demonstrations-continue-in-basra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=14461","title":{"rendered":"Iraq: Deadly demonstrations continue in Basra"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"44.0457063712\">\n<p>Basra has been rocked by protests with demonstrators setting ablaze government buildings, the\u00a0<a class=\"InternalLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/09\/iraqi-protesters-set-fire-iranian-consulate-basra-180907163050613.html\">Iranian consulate<\/a>,\u00a0and the offices of\u00a0<a class=\"InternalLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/09\/iraq-protesters-torch-government-buildings-basra-180907060304225.html\">pro-Tehran militias and political parties<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anger flared after the hospitalisation of 30,000 people who drank polluted water. Residents in the oil-rich region have for weeks complained of water and electricity shortages, corruption among officials and unemployment.<\/p>\n<p>Since the wave of protests first broke out in Basra in July, with demonstrators condemning corruption and demanding jobs, at least 27 people have been killed.<\/p>\n<p><span>Iraqi Prime Minister\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/haider-al-abadi.html\">Haider al-Abadi<\/a> said he had instructed security forces to &#8220;act decisively against the acts of vandalism that accompanied the demonstrations&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basra has been rocked by protests with demonstrators setting ablaze government buildings, the\u00a0Iranian consulate,\u00a0and the offices of\u00a0pro-Tehran militias and political parties. Anger flared after the hospitalisation of 30,000 people who drank polluted water. Residents in the oil-rich region have for weeks complained of water and electricity shortages, corruption among officials and unemployment. Since the wave&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":14462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}