{"id":75564,"date":"2025-12-11T21:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/11\/afghanistan-war-veteran-ice-protest-charges"},"modified":"2025-12-11T21:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T12:00:12","slug":"afghanistan-war-veteran-arrested-after-ice-protest-prepares-for-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75564","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan war veteran arrested after ICE protest prepares for trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bajun Mavalwalla, who maintains his innocence, will take case to jury even as others strike plea agreements<\/p>\n<p>An Afghanistan war veteran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/sep\/02\/fbi-arrest-us-army-veteran-ice-protest\">arrested<\/a> on felony \u201cconspiracy\u201d charges a month after he participated in a protest against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) maintains his innocence and is preparing for a jury trial, even as others arrested the same day strike plea agreements to avoid long prison terms, his father said.<\/p>\n<p>Bajun Mavalwalla II \u2013 a former army sergeant who survived a roadside bomb blast on a special operations mission in Afghanistan \u2013 was charged in July with \u201cconspiracy to impede or injure officers\u201d after joining an anti-ICE protest in Spokane, Washington.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/11\/afghanistan-war-veteran-ice-protest-charges\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bajun Mavalwalla, who maintains his innocence, will take case to jury even as others strike plea agreementsAn Afghanistan war veteran arrested on felony \u201cconspiracy\u201d charges a month after he participated in a protest against US Immigration and Customs &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5108,"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":[46,61,1083,47,3462,3463,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-immigration","category-us-news","category-washington-state","category-west-coast","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\/75564","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\/5108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75565,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75564\/revisions\/75565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}