{"id":41941,"date":"2022-02-24T13:38:53","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T04:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/24\/anti-covid-vaccine-mandate-protesters-chase-new-zealands-jacinda-ardern-outside-school"},"modified":"2022-02-24T13:38:53","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T04:38:53","slug":"anti-covid-vaccine-mandate-protesters-chase-new-zealands-jacinda-ardern-outside-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41941","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Covid vaccine mandate protesters chase New Zealand\u2019s Jacinda Ardern outside school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Incident comes a month after prime minister\u2019s vehicle was chased and forced on to a curb by demonstrators<\/p>\n<p>A group of shouting protesters have chased the New Zealand prime minister\u2019s van down a driveway as she visited a Christchurch primary school, amid tensions over increasingly volatile anti-vaccine mandate protests.<\/p>\n<p>Jacinda Ardern, who was visiting a primary school in Christchurch, was met by a crowd of people shouting \u201cshame on you\u201d and \u201ctraitor\u201d. Some held signs saying that the prime minister would be \u201cput on trial\u201d and \u201cheld responsible\u201d, and one man brandished a fabricated arrest warrant \u2013 references to conspiracy theories that a cohort of world leaders and powerful people are secretly using vaccines to commit a genocide, and would soon be put on trial and hanged for treason.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/24\/anti-covid-vaccine-mandate-protesters-chase-new-zealands-jacinda-ardern-outside-school\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incident comes a month after prime minister\u2019s vehicle was chased and forced on to a curb by demonstratorsA group of shouting protesters have chased the New Zealand prime minister\u2019s van down a driveway as she visited a Christchurch primary school, amid &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"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":[41,1066,56,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-new-zealand","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","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\/41941","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\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41942,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41941\/revisions\/41942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}