{"id":76855,"date":"2026-03-28T10:57:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T01:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/28\/kp-sharma-oli-nepal-arrested-alleged-role-protest-crackdown-ntwnfb"},"modified":"2026-03-28T14:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T05:25:07","slug":"kp-sharma-oli-nepals-former-prime-minister-arrested-over-alleged-role-in-deadly-protest-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76855","title":{"rendered":"KP Sharma Oli: Nepal\u2019s former prime minister arrested over alleged role in deadly protest crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 77 people killed in anti-corruption youth uprising in September, which began over a brief social media ban<\/p>\n<p>Nepal\u2019s former prime minister KP Sharma Oli was arrested early on Saturday morning over his role in the deaths of dozens of people who took part in the gen Z protest that toppled his government last year.<\/p>\n<p>Police detained the three-time former prime minister at his residence in the capital Kathmandu, and also arrested his former home affairs minister Ramesh Lekhak.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/28\/kp-sharma-oli-nepal-arrested-alleged-role-protest-crackdown-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 77 people killed in anti-corruption youth uprising in September, which began over a brief social media banNepal\u2019s former prime minister KP Sharma Oli was arrested early on Saturday morning over his role in the deaths of dozens of people who to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[241,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nepal","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76855","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76855"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76858,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76855\/revisions\/76858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}