{"id":109287,"date":"2023-09-19T20:34:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T15:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/?p=109287"},"modified":"2023-09-19T20:34:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T15:04:52","slug":"protestors-in-manipur-are-calling-for-a-48-hour-bandh-to-demand-the-release-of-five-youths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/?p=109287","title":{"rendered":"Protestors in Manipur are calling for a 48-hour bandh to demand the release of five youths."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-109065\" src=\"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/logo_new-2-1-1-4-1-3-1-6.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"151\" height=\"40\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">O<\/span>n Tuesday, members of Meira Paibi (Meitei women torchbearers) and local clubs shut down the five districts of Manipur\u2019s Imphal valley, demanding the release of five youths who had been taken into police custody on Friday. Meira Paibi members blocked roads and chanted slogans in support of the youths, who are believed to have been village volunteers guarding their villages from Kuki-Zo militants. <\/span><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_109289\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109289\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/Protestors in Manipur are calling for a 48-hour bandh to demand the release of five youths.\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-109289 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-29.jpg\" alt=\"Protestors in Manipur \" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-29.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-29-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-29-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-29-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-29-750x422.jpg 750w, https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-29-1140x641.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-109289\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Protestors in Manipur are calling for a 48-hour bandh to demand the release of five youths.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The 48-hour bandh also forced the Board of Secondary Education, Manipur to cancel the Class 10 supplementary exams, scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday. The All Langthabal Kendra United Clubs Coordinating Committee issued a warning that the agitation would be intensified if the youth were not released. Reports say that the police had arrested them on September 16, and when news spread, a group attempted to storm the Porompat police station, resulting in minor injuries to an RAF personnel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The state government has since formed a one-man panel to investigate the killing of Army soldier Sepoy Serto Thangthang Kom, who was abducted at gunpoint by three unidentified men from his residence in Imphal West and found dead in Imphal East with bullet wounds. The last rites were performed on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, members of Meira Paibi (Meitei women torchbearers) and local clubs shut down the five districts of Manipur\u2019s Imphal valley, demanding the release of five youths who had been taken into police custody on Friday. Meira Paibi members blocked roads and chanted slogans in support of the youths, who are believed to have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"bottom","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"0","show_post_reading_time":"1","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"1","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"2","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-715","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[13915,13914],"class_list":["post-109287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-east","tag-48-hour-bandh-to-demand-the-release-of-five-youths","tag-protestors-in-manipur-are-calling-for-a"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/109288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}