{"id":22278,"date":"2019-01-29T11:22:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T11:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=22278"},"modified":"2019-01-29T14:02:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T14:02:54","slug":"the-streets-are-mostly-empty-everyone-is-staying-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/the-streets-are-mostly-empty-everyone-is-staying-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudanese protests begin in Cardiff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudanese migrants in Cardiff are holding protests against their Government, who they say rule with &#8220;fear and terror&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Elbashir Idris, one of the protest&#8217;s leaders, said that people in his homeland were being subjected to &#8220;constant raids and bombardments of tear gas and bullets&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Idris said that he had experienced being tear-gassed, even when he was not at a demonstration.<\/p>\n<p>He added that &#8220;rebuilding our nation after thirty years of inadequacy is the biggest challenge&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign has received support from Welsh Government Minister Vaughan Gething.<\/p>\n<p>A petition has been submitted to the UK Parliament website which calls on the UK Government to &#8220;condemn the systematic killing of innocent people&#8221; and &#8220;demand the regime respond immediately to the demands of the masses and trade unions in the country&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>President Omar al-Bashir blamed &#8220;infiltrators&#8221; for the killing of protesters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More to follow.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudanese migrants in Cardiff are holding protests against their Government, who they say rule with &#8220;fear and terror&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744,750],"tags":[26,136,1641],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22278"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22319,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22278\/revisions\/22319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}