{"id":18948,"date":"2018-10-18T12:27:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T12:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18948"},"modified":"2018-10-18T12:27:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T12:27:51","slug":"haiti-anti-corruption-protest-turns-violent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18948","title":{"rendered":"Haiti anti-corruption protest turns violent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"56\">\n<p><span>At least one person has been killed and dozens injured as thousands of protesters took to the streets in Haiti&#8217;s capital, Port-au-Prince, over a corruption scandal, with some marchers calling for the resignation of President Jovenel Moise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A report by Haiti&#8217;s Senate published in August accused two former prime ministers and former government officials of embezzlement, abuse of authority and forgery\u00a0stemming from the use of funds in a Venezuelan oil loan programme.<\/p>\n<p>Moise, in a speech on Wednesday to mark the anniversary of the death of Haiti&#8217;s founder, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, pledged that a trial would be held to get to the bottom of missing funds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once you have stolen government funds, whether you are part of the government, of the opposition or of the population, you&#8217;ll have to face justice,&#8221; Moise said in his remarks in the northern town of Marchand Dessalines.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least one person has been killed and dozens injured as thousands of protesters took to the streets in Haiti&#8217;s capital, Port-au-Prince, over a corruption scandal, with some marchers calling for the resignation of President Jovenel Moise. A report by Haiti&#8217;s Senate published in August accused two former prime ministers and former government officials of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18948","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\/18948","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=18948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}