{"id":32018,"date":"2012-01-16T17:14:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T17:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=32018"},"modified":"2012-01-18T07:56:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T07:56:35","slug":"kuwait-government-backs-crackdown-on-stateless-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=32018","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait: Government backs crackdown on stateless protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"Index on Censorship : Kuwait\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Kuwait\" target=\"_blank\">Kuwait<\/a> government <a title=\"AFP : Kuwait govt backs crackdown on stateless protests\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5g4hXtabtrXOUEJ9sJ4yZzWixpNFg?docId=CNG.5cc787e57e8731d4ebf300c0b391aad6.121\" target=\"_blank\">has supported<\/a> the suppression of &#8220;stateless&#8221; protesters by security forces over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Protests\u00a0demanding citizenship rights turned violent, and\u00a0riot police fired tear gas and used batons to disperse protesters.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0statement issued after Kuwait&#8217;s weekly cabinet meeting said: &#8220;The council of ministers expresses its backing and support for the measures being taken by the interior ministry to &#8230; confront all forms of violence.&#8221; The statement also said that only\u00a0&#8220;enemies of Kuwait&#8221; benefited from such unrest.\u00a0Dozens were wounded and over 100 arrested during the protests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kuwait government has supported the suppression of &#8220;stateless&#8221; protesters by security forces over the weekend. Protests\u00a0demanding citizenship rights turned violent, and\u00a0riot police fired tear gas and used batons to disperse protesters. A\u00a0statement issued after Kuwait&#8217;s weekly cabinet meeting said: &#8220;The council of ministers expresses its backing and support for the measures being taken by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,4060,585],"tags":[4191,346,1958,212],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32018"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32021,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32018\/revisions\/32021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}