{"id":30400,"date":"2019-01-24T10:23:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T10:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30400"},"modified":"2019-01-24T10:23:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T10:23:17","slug":"scottish-ex-leader-alex-salmond-arrested-and-charged-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30400","title":{"rendered":"Scottish ex-leader Alex Salmond arrested and charged: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"72.0526315789\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond has been arrested, the BBC reported with other media outlets saying he was due to appear in court later on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;We can confirm a 64-year-old man has been arrested and charged and a report has been sent to the procurator fiscal. Proceedings are now live under the contempt of court act,&#8221; said Police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/scotland.html\">Scotland<\/a> when asked about the reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The police did not name the arrested man though.<\/p>\n<p>The pro-independence figurehead was arrested and charged after a probe into the allegations of sexual harassment, the AFP news agency reported citing police sources.<\/p>\n<p>Salmond led the devolved Scottish government for seven years until 2014 and is credited with helping to push support for Scottish independence from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/united-kingdom.html\">United Kingdom<\/a> to record levels during the 2014 referendum campaign.<\/p>\n<p>More soon&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond has been arrested, the BBC reported with other media outlets saying he was due to appear in court later on Thursday. &#8220;We can confirm a 64-year-old man has been arrested and charged and a report has been sent to the procurator fiscal. Proceedings are now live under the contempt&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}