{"id":21694,"date":"2020-08-15T15:29:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T06:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/15\/thailand-protests-police-arrest-student-activist-for-sedition"},"modified":"2020-08-15T15:29:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T06:29:08","slug":"thailand-protests-police-arrest-student-activist-for-sedition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21694","title":{"rendered":"Thailand protests: police arrest student activist for sedition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-democracy rallies continue with large event due to be held in Bangkok on Sunday<\/p>\n<p>A prominent student protest leader in Thailand has been arrested on charges of sedition as pro-democracy rallies continued across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Parit Chiwarak, 22, whose arrest was livestreamed on social media, was stopped on the outskirts of Bangkok on Friday night. As he was physically carried into a car, he raised his hand in a three-fingered salute \u2013 a gesture borrowed from the Hunger Games that is used by protesters and symbolises opposition to the military-backed government.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/15\/thailand-protests-police-arrest-student-activist-for-sedition\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-democracy rallies continue with large event due to be held in Bangkok on SundayA prominent student protest leader in Thailand has been arrested on charges of sedition as pro-democracy rallies continued across the country.Parit Chiwarak, 22, whose a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1142,"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":[41,457,53,86,80,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-freedom-of-speech","category-human-rights","category-law","category-protest","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21694","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\/1142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21695,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21694\/revisions\/21695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}