{"id":54531,"date":"2023-04-23T14:35:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T05:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/23\/indian-police-arrest-sikh-separatist-preacher-amritpal-singh-after-weeks-on-run"},"modified":"2023-04-23T14:35:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-23T05:35:21","slug":"indian-police-arrest-sikh-separatist-preacher-amritpal-singh-after-weeks-on-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54531","title":{"rendered":"Indian police arrest Sikh separatist preacher Amritpal Singh after weeks on run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singh surrendered in Punjab town of Moga, says a Sikh leader, as police appeal to public for calm<\/p>\n<p>Indian police have arrested a separatist leader who revived calls for an independent Sikh homeland and the secession of India\u2019s northern Punjab state, which has a history of violent insurgency.<\/p>\n<p>Amritpal Singh had been on the run since March after capturing national attention in February when hundreds of his supporters stormed a police station in the Punjab town of Ajnala with wooden batons, swords and guns to demand the release of a jailed aide.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/23\/indian-police-arrest-sikh-separatist-preacher-amritpal-singh-after-weeks-on-run\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singh surrendered in Punjab town of Moga, says a Sikh leader, as police appeal to public for calmIndian police have arrested a separatist leader who revived calls for an independent Sikh homeland and the secession of India\u2019s northern Punjab state, whic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1694,"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":[62,371,1282,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-religion","category-sikhism","category-south-and-central-asia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54531","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\/1694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54532,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54531\/revisions\/54532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}