{"id":29932,"date":"2019-01-20T18:23:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T18:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=29932"},"modified":"2019-01-20T18:23:45","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T18:23:45","slug":"sudan-police-tear-gas-protesters-ahead-of-parliament-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=29932","title":{"rendered":"Sudan police tear gas protesters ahead of parliament march"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1438621\/middle-east\" readability=\"75\">\n<p>\nKHARTOUM: Sudanese police fired tear gas on Sunday at protesters ahead of a planned march on parliament in Omdurman, the twin city of Khartoum, witnesses said.<\/p>\n<p>\nDemonstrators chanting \u201cfreedom, peace and justice\u201d began gathering in some areas of Omdurman but were quickly confronted by riot police with tear gas, the witnesses said.<\/p>\n<p>\nDeadly protests which erupted on December 19 after a government decision to raise the price of bread have turned into nationwide rallies against President Omar Al-Bashir\u2019s three decade rule.<\/p>\n<p>\nOfficials say at least 26 people, including two security personnel, have died during a month of protests, while rights group Amnesty International last week put the death toll at more than 40.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Sudanese Professionals Association, an umbrella group of trade unions that is leading the ongoing protest movement, called for fresh demonstrations on Sunday and several days over the coming week.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cWe are calling for a march to parliament in Omdurman on Sunday,\u201d it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe protesters will submit to parliament a memorandum calling on President Bashir to step down,\u201d added the association, which represents the unions of doctors, teachers and engineers.<\/p>\n<p>\nOver the past month, protesters have staged several demonstrations in Omdurman.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe SPA said there will also be rallies in Khartoum on Sunday, to be followed by night-time demonstrations on Tuesday in the capital and in Omdurman.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cAnd on Thursday there will be rallies across all towns and cities of Sudan,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KHARTOUM: Sudanese police fired tear gas on Sunday at protesters ahead of a planned march on parliament in Omdurman, the twin city of Khartoum, witnesses said. Demonstrators chanting \u201cfreedom, peace and justice\u201d began gathering in some areas of Omdurman but were quickly confronted by riot police with tear gas, the witnesses said. Deadly protests which&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":29933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29932","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\/29932","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=29932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}