{"id":16099,"date":"2019-03-25T13:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T05:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=16099"},"modified":"2019-03-25T13:00:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T05:00:48","slug":"moroccan-police-use-water-cannons-to-disperse-teachers-protest-witness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=16099","title":{"rendered":"Moroccan police use water cannons to disperse teachers&#8217; protest: witness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3>RABAT, March 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Moroccan police used water cannons early on Sunday to disperse thousands of young teachers protesting in the capital Rabat for better work conditions, a witness said.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities were trying to end a rally of an estimated 15,000 teachers in front of parliament where they planned to spend the night ahead of an even bigger demonstration called by a coalition of leftist opposition parties, unions and civil society groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Policemen in anti-riot gear moved into action after negotiations between officers and teachers to ask protesters to leave the area broke down after several hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities had offered to send buses to drive them to places where they could spend the night, teachers said. They had been chanting \u201cLiberty, dignity, social justice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was no immediate comment from the police or the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some teachers said they were protesting against contracts on which they have been hired. They are demanding full benefits and pensions like regular public servants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Teachers across the country have been striking for three weeks in a row. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RABAT, March 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Moroccan police used water cannons early on Sunday to disperse thousands of young teachers protesting in the capital Rabat for better work conditions, a witness said. Authorities were trying to end a rally of an estimated 15,000 teachers in front of parliament where they planned to spend the night ahead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16099"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}