{"id":14736,"date":"2020-02-20T13:46:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T04:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/20\/how-india-turned-kashmir-centaur-hotel-into-a-jail-for-politicians"},"modified":"2020-02-20T13:46:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T04:46:25","slug":"humiliating-to-the-core-how-india-turned-a-kashmir-hotel-into-a-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14736","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Humiliating to the core&#8217;: how India turned a Kashmir hotel into a jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centaur hotel was transformed into a gilded prison for once-powerful politicians loyal to India<\/p>\n<p>It was a prison unlike any other. The picturesque venue, on the lake front in the city of Srinagar in Kashmir, just minutes from a golf course, usually functions as a palatial hotel, but for three months last year it became a gilded jailhouse for Salman Sagar and dozens of once-powerful Kashmiri ministers and legislators.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a jail,\u201d said Sagar. \u201cThe notion was given that it was five star but it was not \u2026They put immense psychological pressure on us. They were as strict as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/20\/how-india-turned-kashmir-centaur-hotel-into-a-jail-for-politicians\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centaur hotel was transformed into a gilded prison for once-powerful politicians loyal to IndiaIt was a prison unlike any other. The picturesque venue, on the lake front in the city of Srinagar in Kashmir, just minutes from a golf course, usually f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,432,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-kashmir","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14737,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14736\/revisions\/14737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}