{"id":22725,"date":"2020-09-15T01:29:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T16:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/14\/india-student-activist-umar-khalid-arrested-over-delhi-riots"},"modified":"2020-09-15T01:29:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T16:29:27","slug":"indian-student-activist-umar-khalid-arrested-over-delhi-riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22725","title":{"rendered":"Indian student activist Umar Khalid arrested over Delhi riots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent rights campaigner held under anti-terrorism laws for alleged role in February\u2019s deadly riots<\/p>\n<p>A prominent student activist has been arrested for his alleged role in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/01\/india-delhi-after-hindu-mob-riot-religious-hatred-nationalists\">deadly riots in Delhi earlier this year<\/a>, as police continue to round up anti-government figures in an investigation that has been condemned as politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p>There was outcry among activists and politicians after police arrested Umar Khalid on Sunday night, naming him as a conspirator in the Delhi riots case and arresting him under a draconian terrorism law. He will be held in police custody for the next 10 days.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/14\/india-student-activist-umar-khalid-arrested-over-delhi-riots\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent rights campaigner held under anti-terrorism laws for alleged role in February\u2019s deadly riotsA prominent student activist has been arrested for his alleged role in deadly riots in Delhi earlier this year, as police continue to round up anti-go&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"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":[516,62,447,80,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hinduism","category-india","category-islam","category-protest","category-religion","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\/22725","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\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22726,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22725\/revisions\/22726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}