{"id":42374,"date":"2018-01-06T20:34:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T15:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=42374"},"modified":"2018-01-06T20:34:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T15:34:48","slug":"11-saudi-princes-arrested-for-not-complying-with-govts-austerity-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=42374","title":{"rendered":"11 Saudi Princes arrested for not complying with Gov\u2019ts austerity drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>RIYADH, Jan 06 (TNS):<\/strong> 11 princes who refused to comply with kingdom&#8217;s austerity drive have been arrested by authorities and might face trial.<\/p>\n<p>A news website close to the Saudi government reported on Saturday that the princes, who were not named, were protesting at a historical Riyadh royal palace, Qasr al-Hokm, against a government&#8217;s decision to stop paying the water and electricity bills of royals.<\/p>\n<p>They were also demanding &#8220;financial compensation&#8221; after one of their cousins had been sentenced for an unspecified crime.<\/p>\n<p>The princes were transferred to the high-security Ha&#8217;ir prison in the capital &#8220;ahead of their trial&#8221;, Sabq said, citing unnamed sources.<\/p>\n<p>It said the princes &#8220;were informed of the error of their demands but they refused to leave Qasr al-Hokm&#8221;, prompting the royal guards to intervene and arrest them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIYADH, Jan 06 (TNS): 11 princes who refused to comply with kingdom&#8217;s austerity drive have been arrested by authorities and might face trial. A news website close to the Saudi government reported on Saturday that the princes, who were not named, were protesting at a historical Riyadh royal palace, Qasr al-Hokm, against a government&#8217;s decision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,396],"tags":[932,816],"class_list":["post-42374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-riyadh","tag-international","tag-riyadh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42377,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42374\/revisions\/42377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}