{"id":23855,"date":"2011-06-14T14:39:16","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T13:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=23855"},"modified":"2011-06-14T14:39:16","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T13:39:16","slug":"bangladesh-anti-government-protesters-arrested-in-second-general-strike-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=23855","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh: Anti-government protesters arrested in second general strike this month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 50 anti-government protesters were jailed in <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Bangladesh\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/bangladesh\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bangladesh <\/a>yesterday after the authorities broke up the second general strike staged this month. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party and the Islamic fundamentalist group, Jamaat-e-Islami, are\u00a0<a title=\"Today Online: Anti-government protesters jailed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayonline.com\/World\/Worldinbrief\/EDC110613-0000036\/Anti-government-protesters-jailed-in-Bangladesh\" target=\"_blank\">oppposing <\/a>the planned abolition of a law which requires the government to hand over power to a neutral party for polling once their administration is over. Protesters observing the 36-hour strike have been <a title=\"Washington Post: Bangladesh jails protesters\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/bangladesh-detains-protesters-as-opposition-launches-another-strike-over-constitution-change\/2011\/06\/12\/AGwp05QH_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">jailed <\/a>for up to a month for &#8220;creating public disturbance&#8221; in the capital, Dhaka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 50 anti-government protesters were jailed in Bangladesh yesterday after the authorities broke up the second general strike staged this month. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party and the Islamic fundamentalist group, Jamaat-e-Islami, are\u00a0oppposing the planned abolition of a law which requires the government to hand over power to a neutral party for polling once their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[7367,571,283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23855"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23869,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23855\/revisions\/23869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}