{"id":9161,"date":"2013-08-15T08:45:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T08:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9161"},"modified":"2013-08-15T08:45:09","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T08:45:09","slug":"pagad-leader-behind-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9161","title":{"rendered":"Pagad leader behind bars"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9162\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9162\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/AbdusSalaamEbrahim.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9162\" alt=\"Abdus Salaam Ebrahim\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/AbdusSalaamEbrahim.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9162\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abdus Salaam Ebrahim<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pagad leader, Abdus Salaam Ebrahim, has been arrested. The anti-gangsterism and drugs group has confirmed that its frontman was picked up on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pagad has again been at the centre of controversy in recent weeks. It&#8217;s been blamed for twin blasts in and around Athlone during a cavalcade through gang-infested areas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pagad has denied any involvement, and believes Ebrahim&#8217;s arrest is merely an attempt to curb another protest, scheduled for Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police meanwhile have only confirmed that a 55-year old man was taken into custody but are not commenting on the circumstances.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ebrahim was released on parole in 2008, nine years after he was sentenced for public violence. &#8211; eNCA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pagad leader, Abdus Salaam Ebrahim, has been arrested. The anti-gangsterism and drugs group has confirmed that its frontman was picked up on Wednesday morning. Pagad has again been at the centre of controversy in recent weeks. It&#8217;s been blamed for twin blasts in and around Athlone during a cavalcade through gang-infested areas. Pagad has denied &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9161\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pagad leader behind bars&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5154,4318],"class_list":["post-9161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-abdus-salaam-ebrahim","tag-pagad"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/AbdusSalaamEbrahim.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9164,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161\/revisions\/9164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}