{"id":88578,"date":"2019-12-22T00:50:08","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T19:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=88578"},"modified":"2019-12-22T00:50:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T19:20:08","slug":"manipur-police-coerce-activist-to-delete-fb-post-against-cm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/12\/22\/manipur-police-coerce-activist-to-delete-fb-post-against-cm\/","title":{"rendered":"Manipur police coerce activist to delete FB post against CM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Dec 21:<\/strong> Santa Khurai, a Manipur-based transgender activist, has said that some eight policemen came to her house on Friday evening and forced her to delete a Facebook post in which she had described the Manipur chief minister as &#8220;son of a slave.&#8221;<br \/>\nSpeaking to this daily, Khurai said she had shared a news link which contained a report about the N Biren Singh government&#8217;s recommendation to the Centre to extend the AFSPA for six months in Manipur.<br \/>\nKhurai, a trans-woman, said she was also forced to post an apology, but was later asked to delete the post after policemen took a screenshot of it.<br \/>\n&#8220;I apologized because I don&#8217;t want my family to suffer because of me,&#8221; she said.<br \/>\nShe said there was no policewoman in the team, &#8220;which was disrespect to my gender identity.&#8221;<br \/>\nKhurai, a well-known transgender activist, is associated with the Solidarity and Action Against HIV Infection in India.<br \/>\nShe said she will not lodge a complaint against the police &#8220;as there is no point in it.<br \/>\n&#8220;We cannot do anything the government,&#8221; she said.<br \/>\nKhurai said she was deeply offended by the fact that the police just barged into her house at 8 pm &#8220;without any notice and without following any protocol.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe Manipur police did not respond to phone calls, nor did they respond to a WhatsApp message from this daily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Dec 21: Santa Khurai, a Manipur-based transgender activist, has said that some eight policemen came to her house on Friday evening and forced her to delete a Facebook post in which she had described the Manipur chief minister as &#8220;son of a slave.&#8221; Speaking to this daily, Khurai said she had shared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88578","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}