{"id":26747,"date":"2018-06-13T12:32:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T11:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=26747"},"modified":"2018-06-13T12:32:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T11:32:33","slug":"police-arrest-man-over-punish-a-muslim-day-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/13\/police-arrest-man-over-punish-a-muslim-day-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest Man over \u2018Punish a Muslim Day\u2019 Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An arrest has been made of a 35-year-old man from Lincoln in connection with the &#8216;Punish a Muslim Day&#8217; letters which were sent across the UK earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The letters boast about acts of violence against muslims and suggested perpetrators would earn &#8216;points&#8217; for each they committed.<\/p>\n<p>Officers from Counter\u00a0Terrorism\u00a0Policing North East, supported by Lincolnshire Police, arrested the man on Tuesday 16 June<\/p>\n<p>.He has been\u00a0arrested\u00a0on suspicion of the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sending a hoax noxious substance under section 114(1)(a) and (3) of the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001<\/li>\n<li>Sending letters\/communications\/articles conveying a threatening message contrary to section 1(1)(a) and (4) Malicious Communications Act 1988<\/li>\n<li>Conspiring and soliciting to commit murder contrary to section 4 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He is being held in custody in West Yorkshire.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, a spokesperson for Counter\u00a0Terrorism\u00a0Policing North East said: &#8220;We understand that people may be concerned following this activity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, we would like to reassure communities that this activity is a result of an ongoing, intelligence led investigation and was not in response to an immediate threat.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An arrest has been made of a 35-year-old man from Lincoln in connection with the &#8216;Punish a Muslim Day&#8217; letters which were sent across the UK earlier this year. The letters boast about acts of violence against muslims and suggested perpetrators would earn &#8216;points&#8217; for each they committed. Officers from Counter\u00a0Terrorism\u00a0Policing North East, supported by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,283,112],"tags":[1225],"class_list":["post-26747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-top-news","category-top-stories","tag-punish-a-muslim-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}