{"id":29622,"date":"2021-03-11T10:59:13","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T01:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/11\/thailand-considers-expanding-jails-as-it-arrests-more-political-prisoners"},"modified":"2021-03-11T10:59:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T01:59:13","slug":"thailand-considers-expanding-jails-as-it-arrests-more-political-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29622","title":{"rendered":"Thailand considers expanding jails as it arrests more political prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facilities holding those recently detained are becoming congested, justice minister says<\/p>\n<p>Thailand is considering an expansion of prison space as it arrests more political prisoners, the justice minister has said.<\/p>\n<p>Somsak Thepsuthin said Bangkok Remand Prison and Klong Prem Central Prison, where most recently detained political prisoners are held, become congested when families and supporters come to visit.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/11\/thailand-considers-expanding-jails-as-it-arrests-more-political-prisoners\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facilities holding those recently detained are becoming congested, justice minister saysThailand is considering an expansion of prison space as it arrests more political prisoners, the justice minister has said.Somsak Thepsuthin said Bangkok Remand Pri&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[41,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-thailand","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\/29622","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29623,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29622\/revisions\/29623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}