{"id":31429,"date":"2019-02-01T18:24:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T18:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31429"},"modified":"2019-02-01T18:24:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T18:24:26","slug":"sudan-police-fire-tear-gas-on-protest-after-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31429","title":{"rendered":"Sudan police fire tear gas on protest after prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1445436\/middle-east\" readability=\"44\">\n<p>\nKHARTOUM: Sudanese police fired tear gas on Friday at worshippers leaving a mosque in the metropolis chanting &#8220;freedom, freedom&#8221; in an anti-government protest after the main weekly Muslim prayers, witnesses said.<br \/>Worshippers have held regular demonstrations after prayers at the mosque run by the opposition Umma Party in the capital&#8217;s twin city Omdurman since its veteran leader, former premier Sadiq al-Mahdi, threw his support behind the protest movement.<br \/>&#8220;Riot police swiftly moved in and fired tear gas at them,&#8221; a witness told AFP.<br \/>&#8220;They were also chanting freedom, peace, justice,&#8221; the rallying cry of the protests that erupted in December against the three-decade rule of President Omar al-Bashir, the witness said.<br \/>Demonstrations first broke out in the farming town of Atbara on December 19 after the government tripled the price of bread.<br \/>But they swiftly ecalated into a broader protest movement that has been seen as the biggest threat to Bashir&#8217;s rule since he took power in an Islamist-backed coup that toppled Mahdi&#8217;s elected government in 1989.<br \/>Officials say 30 people have died in violence related to the protests. Human rights groups say children and medics have been among more than 40 people killed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KHARTOUM: Sudanese police fired tear gas on Friday at worshippers leaving a mosque in the metropolis chanting &#8220;freedom, freedom&#8221; in an anti-government protest after the main weekly Muslim prayers, witnesses said.Worshippers have held regular demonstrations after prayers at the mosque run by the opposition Umma Party in the capital&#8217;s twin city Omdurman since its veteran&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31429","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\/31429","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=31429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}