{"id":1035,"date":"2015-03-06T18:59:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T18:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.humanrightsagency.com\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2015-03-06T18:59:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T18:59:57","slug":"myanmar-police-chase-down-students-in-3rd-protest-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/myanmar-police-chase-down-students-in-3rd-protest-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar police chase down students in 3rd protest crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police chased down student protesters and dragged them onto trucks Friday in Myanmar&#8217;s third such crackdown on public demonstrations in as many days.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities went after five students after they broke off from 200 other demonstrators locked in a standoff at a Letpadan monastery, an Associated Press photographer and other witnesses said.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrators oppose a new education law and want to march to the country&#8217;s main city, Yangon, 140 kilometers (90 miles) south of Letpadan, but authorities have blocked roads and warned students not to go ahead(&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>The five people detained Friday are among hundreds who have been protesting against the education law in different cities for more than a month, gaining public sympathy along the way.<\/p>\n<p>They want the government to scrap a law that puts all decisions about education policy and curriculum in the hands of a group largely made up of government ministers, which critics say undermines the autonomy of universities.<\/p>\n<p>AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police chased down student protesters and dragged them onto trucks Friday in Myanmar&#8217;s third such crackdown on public demonstrations in as many days. Authorities went after five students after they broke off from 200 other demonstrators locked in a standoff at a Letpadan monastery, an Associated Press photographer and other witnesses said. The demonstrators oppose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[198,199,200,86,176,201],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","tag-education","tag-law","tag-myanmar","tag-police","tag-protest","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}