{"id":452210,"date":"2021-11-27T10:07:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T04:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=452210"},"modified":"2021-11-27T10:47:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T05:17:14","slug":"agustawestland-middleman-christian-michel-on-hunger-strike-kin-flag-delay-in-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/agustawestland-middleman-christian-michel-on-hunger-strike-kin-flag-delay-in-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"AgustaWestland \u2018middleman\u2019 Christian Michel on hunger strike, kin flag \u2018delay\u2019 in trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A DAY after Christian Michel, the alleged middleman in the AgustaWestland VVIP helicopter deal, began his \u201cindefinite\u201d hunger strike in Tihar Jail, his family members on Friday said they were \u201cvery concerned about the trial never happening\u201d and urged the British government to intervene.<\/p>\n<p>Michel had sought the UK government\u2019s intervention in a letter to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson last month, saying he would remain on a hunger strike till it took action.<\/p>\n<p>Michel\u2019s legal team has contended that he was extradited to India by the UAE in December 2018 in exchange for the return of Princess Latifa, the estranged daughter of the ruler of Dubai who was reportedly forcibly taken off a boat in international waters off the coast of India in March 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A DAY after Christian Michel, the alleged middleman in the AgustaWestland VVIP helicopter deal, began his \u201cindefinite\u201d hunger strike in Tihar Jail, his family members on Friday said they were \u201cvery concerned about the trial never happening\u201d and urged the British government to intervene. Michel had sought the UK government\u2019s intervention in a letter to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson last month, saying he would remain on a hunger strike till it took action. Michel\u2019s legal team has contended that he was extradited to India by the UAE in December 2018 in exchange for the return of Princess Latifa, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}