{"id":39974,"date":"2023-05-28T13:46:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T13:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/05\/28\/indian-police-drag-away-and-detain-protesting-wrestlers\/"},"modified":"2023-05-28T13:46:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T13:46:15","slug":"indian-police-drag-away-and-detain-protesting-wrestlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=39974","title":{"rendered":"Indian police drag away and detain protesting wrestlers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Several of India&#8217;s top wrestlers have been dragged away and detained by police during the latest protest against the alleged abuse of female athletes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Olympic medallist Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia are among those detained near the Indian parliament in Delhi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The athletes are demanding the arrest of Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Singh &#8211; an influential lawmaker and politician from the governing BJP &#8211; who is accused of sexual abuse and harassment of female wrestlers &#8211; allegations he denies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-65738478?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Several of India&#8217;s top wrestlers have been dragged away and detained by police during the latest protest against the alleged abuse of female athletes. Olympic medallist Sakshi Malik and &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}