{"id":28057,"date":"2019-01-04T18:25:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T18:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28057"},"modified":"2019-01-04T18:25:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T18:25:17","slug":"dozens-protest-near-khartoum-after-friday-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28057","title":{"rendered":"Dozens protest near Khartoum after Friday prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1430426\/middle-east\" readability=\"47\">\n<p>\nOMDURMAN, Sudan: Dozens of protesters chanted anti-government slogans as they left a major mosque following Friday prayers in Omdurman, near the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, a Reuters witness said.<br \/>The gathering was quickly dispersed after security forces fired teargas at the crowd.<br \/>The protest was significantly smaller than other demonstrations seen in Sudan in recent weeks, triggered by price increases and shortages of cash and fuel following months of deteriorating economic conditions.<br \/>Organizers have urged protesters to march toward the presidential palace in Khartoum on Sunday, when larger numbers are expected to take to the streets.<br \/>Friday&#8217;s protesters, mainly young men, chanted &#8220;peaceful, peaceful&#8221; and &#8220;step down, step down,&#8221; as they called for a change in government.<br \/>Many protesters during the past two weeks have called for an end to the rule of President Omar al-Bashir.<br \/>The protests represent the most persistent opposition Bashir has faced since he took power in a coup nearly 30 years ago. The demonstrations are more widespread and sustained than bouts of unrest in September 2013 and January 2018.<br \/>Security forces have fired live ammunition as well as tear gas and stun grenades at protesters, witnesses say. They have also detained some protesters and opposition figures.<br \/>Officials have acknowledged 19 deaths in the demonstrations. Amnesty International said last week it had credible reports that 37 protesters had been killed by bullets fired by security forces.<br \/>Bashir and the head of Sudan\u2019s National Intelligence and Security Service have called for restraint in the response to the protests, which officials have blamed on infiltrators.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OMDURMAN, Sudan: Dozens of protesters chanted anti-government slogans as they left a major mosque following Friday prayers in Omdurman, near the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, a Reuters witness said.The gathering was quickly dispersed after security forces fired teargas at the crowd.The protest was significantly smaller than other demonstrations seen in Sudan in recent weeks, triggered&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28057","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\/28057","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=28057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}