{"id":49486,"date":"2013-11-11T17:28:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T13:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=49486"},"modified":"2013-11-11T17:29:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T13:29:55","slug":"clashes-between-police-foreign-workers-leave-2-dead-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=49486","title":{"rendered":"Clashes between police, foreign workers leave 2 dead in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/saudi-clashes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49483\" alt=\"\u054d\u0561\u0578\u0582\u0564\u0575\u0561\u0576 \u0531\u0580\u0561\u0562\u056b\u0561\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/saudi-clashes.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/saudi-clashes.jpg 640w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/saudi-clashes-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/saudi-clashes-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Two people were killed and 68 others injured in clashes between police and foreign workers following a visa crackdown in Saudi Arabia, the official news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested 561 people Saturday in the capital of Riyadh, according to the Saudi Press Agency.<\/p>\n<p>The arrests came after &#8220;unidentified&#8221; people barricaded themselves in narrow streets, where they threw stones at residents and vandalized shops and cars, according to a police statement posted on the news agency&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>In the aftermath of Saturday&#8217;s clashes, a police spokesman urged workers without proper documents to surrender at a shelter in the capital until they could be deported.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the workers impacted by recent police raids are African migrants.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia launched a &#8220;security campaign&#8221; this month to crack down on workers violating visa rules.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Two people were killed and 68 others injured in clashes between police and foreign&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":49483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[3701,3702],"class_list":["post-49486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-clashes","tag-saudi-arabia","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}