{"id":43103,"date":"2024-07-22T10:05:15","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T10:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/500-arrested-in-bangladesh-over-violent-protest\/"},"modified":"2024-07-22T10:05:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T10:05:15","slug":"500-arrested-in-bangladesh-over-violent-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/500-arrested-in-bangladesh-over-violent-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"500 arrested in Bangladesh over violent protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Dhaka Metropolitan Police Spokesman, Faruk Hossain, on Monday revealed that over 500 people, including some opposition leaders have been detained over a series of violent protests in Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p>Hossain said that the third-most senior leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, BNP, Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury, and the spokesperson, Rahul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed were among the detainees.<\/p>\n<p>He added that a former national football captain turned senior BNP figure, Aminul Huq and Mia Golam Parwar, the General Secretary of the country\u2019s largest Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami, were also arrested.<\/p>\n<p>The Police spokesperson confirmed that at least three policemen had been killed during the unrest in the capital and about 1,000 injured.<\/p>\n<p>500 arrested in Bangladesh over violent protest<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dhaka Metropolitan Police Spokesman, Faruk Hossain, on Monday revealed that over 500 people, including some opposition leaders have been detained&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21661,15],"tags":[17874,3246,21664,180,216,600,16550],"class_list":["post-43103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-news","tag-17874","tag-arrested","tag-bangladesh","tag-news","tag-over","tag-protest","tag-violent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}