{"id":1465,"date":"2015-05-17T08:21:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T08:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.humanrightsagency.com\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2015-05-17T08:21:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T08:21:44","slug":"saudi-protesters-hold-rally-to-support-senior-shia-cleric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/2015\/05\/17\/saudi-protesters-hold-rally-to-support-senior-shia-cleric\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi protesters hold rally to support senior Shia cleric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi protesters have once again taken to the streets, calling on authorities to overturn the death sentence handed to prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.<\/p>\n<p>The Saudis staged a rally in the Qatif region of Eastern Province for the third night in a row to show solidarity with Nimr, on death row in the kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrators carried placards and shouted slogans, urging the ruling Al Saud regime to release the respected cleric, who was sentenced to death last year.<\/p>\n<p>The protest was held as calls were growing worldwide for the release of Nimr, who has been in jail for more than three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi protesters have once again taken to the streets, calling on authorities to overturn the death sentence handed to prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr. The Saudis staged a rally in the Qatif region of Eastern Province for the third night in a row to show solidarity with Nimr, on death row in the kingdom. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[293,292],"tags":[484,306,485],"class_list":["post-1465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-middle-east","category-minority-rights","tag-protesters","tag-saudi","tag-shia-cleric"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}