{"id":9583,"date":"2019-09-21T10:56:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T05:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=9583"},"modified":"2019-09-21T10:58:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T05:58:12","slug":"rare-protests-break-out-in-egypt-against-president-sisi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/9583","title":{"rendered":"Rare Protests Break out in Egypt Against President Sisi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">Thousands of pro-democracy protesters marched in cities across\u00a0 Egypt \u00a0on Friday to demand the resignation of President\u00a0 Abdul Fatteh el-Sisi.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of Egyptians filled Tahrir Square in Cairo &#8211; a key site of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution &#8211; demanding his resignation.\u00a0 Demonstrations also reportedly took place elsewhere around the country.<\/p>\n<p>Tear gas has been fired to disperse demonstrators in Egypt, at some of the first protests since President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi took power in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The protests are in response to corruption allegations against President Sisi&#8217;s government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Videos posted on social media showed demonstrators chanting &#8220;rise up, fear not, Sisi must go&#8221; and &#8220;the people demand the regime\u2019s fall&#8221; late on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of pro-democracy protesters marched in cities across\u00a0 Egypt \u00a0on Friday to demand the resignation of President\u00a0 Abdul Fatteh el-Sisi. Hundreds of Egyptians filled Tahrir Square in Cairo &#8211; a key site of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution &#8211; demanding his resignation.\u00a0 Demonstrations also reportedly took place elsewhere around the country. Tear gas has been fired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9585,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9583\/revisions\/9585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}