{"id":66846,"date":"2026-02-20T11:55:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/bodyguards-for-azerbaijani-president-in-town-for-trumps-board-of-peace-attack-protesters-in-dc\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T11:55:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:55:05","slug":"bodyguards-for-azerbaijani-president-in-town-for-trumps-board-of-peace-attack-protesters-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/bodyguards-for-azerbaijani-president-in-town-for-trumps-board-of-peace-attack-protesters-in-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodyguards for Azerbaijani president, in town for Trump\u2019s Board of Peace, attack protesters in DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters were outside hotel in Washington demanding the release of political prisoners in Azerbaijan<\/p>\n<p>Bodyguards traveling with the Azerbaijani president, who was visiting Washington for the inaugural meeting of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s Board of Peace, punched, kicked and chased protesters outside a Washington hotel on Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NoSezgin\/status\/2024560377921425507\">video footage shows<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrators calling for the release of political prisoners were driven from the street near the motorcade of Ilham Aliyev, the Azerbaijani leader.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/20\/azerbaijan-trump-board-peace-protestors\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters were outside hotel in Washington demanding the release of political prisoners in Azerbaijan Bodyguards traveling with the Azerbaijani president, who was visiting Washington for the inaugural meeting of Donald Trump\u2019s Board of Peace, punched, kicked and chased protesters outside a Washington hotel on Thursday, video footage shows. Demonstrators calling for the release of political &#8230; <a title=\"Bodyguards for Azerbaijani president, in town for Trump\u2019s Board of Peace, attack protesters in DC\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/bodyguards-for-azerbaijani-president-in-town-for-trumps-board-of-peace-attack-protesters-in-dc\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Bodyguards for Azerbaijani president, in town for Trump\u2019s Board of Peace, attack protesters in DC\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}