{"id":15627,"date":"2018-12-20T04:08:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T04:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=15627"},"modified":"2018-12-20T04:08:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T04:08:52","slug":"bahrainis-mark-martyrs-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/bahrainis-mark-martyrs-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Bahrainis mark Martyrs\u2019 Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"news-brief\"><strong>Hundreds have been taking to the streets across Bahrain to mark the country\u2019s 24th Martyrs\u2019 Day commemorations. <\/strong><\/h3>\n<section>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA):\u00a0Hundreds have been taking to the streets across Bahrain to mark the country\u2019s 24th Martyrs\u2019 Day commemorations. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Protesters marched through a number of towns and villages, holding up posters of young men killed by Manama\u2019s security forces in recent years and demanding that those responsible be brought to justice. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In the village of Nuwaidrat, the peaceful gatherings came under attack by police firing teargas at the protesters. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Martyrs\u2019 Day dates back to the extrajudicial killing of anti-regime protesters during Bahrain\u2019s 1994 uprising. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since then, rallies are staged annually for those who perished as a result of Manama\u2019s decades-long clampdown on dissent. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bahrainis also mark the somber occasion with a visit to the cemetery in remembrance of friends and family.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds have been taking to the streets across Bahrain to mark the country\u2019s 24th Martyrs\u2019 Day commemorations. AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA):\u00a0Hundreds have been taking to the streets across Bahrain to mark the country\u2019s 24th Martyrs\u2019 Day commemorations. Protesters marched through a number of towns and villages, holding up posters of young men killed by Manama\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15629,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15627\/revisions\/15629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}