{"id":6295,"date":"2021-01-08T10:53:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T10:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=147669"},"modified":"2021-01-08T10:53:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T10:53:00","slug":"sadyr-japarov-from-convicted-kidnapper-to-kyrgyz-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/08\/sadyr-japarov-from-convicted-kidnapper-to-kyrgyz-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Sadyr Japarov: From Convicted Kidnapper To Kyrgyz President?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/96f78eab-8572-4532-8949-8248f0bef413_w1200_r1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Sadyr Japrov is considered the front-runner in Kyrgyzstan&#8217;s presidential election on January 10. A little more than three months ago, he was in prison. He said charges that he took part in an attempted hostage-taking scheme were politically motivated. He was freed during unrest surrounding annulled parliamentary elections in October. We look at the up-and-down career of this populist politician.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/08\/sadyr-japarov-from-convicted-kidnapper-to-kyrgyz-president\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadyr Japrov is considered the front-runner in Kyrgyzstan\u2019s presidential election on January 10. A little more than three months ago, he was in prison. He said charges that\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337,4,23,76,77],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6296,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6295\/revisions\/6296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}