{"id":249572,"date":"2021-07-23T11:27:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T11:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/23\/iran-accused-of-using-unlawful-force-in-water-protest-crackdown"},"modified":"2021-07-23T11:27:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T11:27:53","slug":"iran-accused-of-using-unlawful-force-in-water-protest-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/07\/23\/iran-accused-of-using-unlawful-force-in-water-protest-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran accused of using unlawful force in water protest crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amnesty says security forces used live ammunition on protesters while officials blame \u2018opportunists\u2019<\/p><p>Iran is using unlawful and excessive force in a crackdown against protests over water shortages in its oil-rich but arid southwestern Khuzestan province, according to international rights groups.<\/p><p>Amnesty International said it had confirmed the deaths of at least eight protesters and bystanders, including a teenage boy, after the authorities used live ammunition to quell the protests.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/23\/iran-accused-of-using-unlawful-force-in-water-protest-crackdown\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/23\/iran-accused-of-using-unlawful-force-in-water-protest-crackdown\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amnesty says security forces used live ammunition on protesters while officials blame \u2018opportunists\u2019Iran is using unlawful and excessive force in a crackdown against protests over water shortages in its oil-rich but arid southwestern Khuzestan province&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":879,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3059,6,25,1258,1825,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/879"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249573,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249572\/revisions\/249573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}