{"id":69537,"date":"2026-03-20T07:59:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T12:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/us-veteran-charged-with-conspiracy-over-ice-protest-refuses-to-plead-guilty\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T07:59:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T12:59:33","slug":"us-veteran-charged-with-conspiracy-over-ice-protest-refuses-to-plead-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/us-veteran-charged-with-conspiracy-over-ice-protest-refuses-to-plead-guilty\/","title":{"rendered":"US veteran charged with \u2018conspiracy\u2019 over ICE protest refuses to plead guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The right to protest is \u2018fundamentally American\u2019, says Bajun Mavalwalla who awaits trial and<strong> <\/strong>faces six years in prison<\/p>\n<p><em>This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A US military veteran arrested on federal conspiracy charges after participating in a June 2025 protest against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) told the Guardian he refuses to plead guilty and is ready to face justice.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/20\/us-army-veteran-ice-protest-trial\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The right to protest is \u2018fundamentally American\u2019, says Bajun Mavalwalla who awaits trial and faces six years in prison This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center A US military veteran arrested on federal conspiracy charges after participating in a June 2025 protest against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) told the Guardian &#8230; <a title=\"US veteran charged with \u2018conspiracy\u2019 over ICE protest refuses to plead guilty\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/us-veteran-charged-with-conspiracy-over-ice-protest-refuses-to-plead-guilty\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US veteran charged with \u2018conspiracy\u2019 over ICE protest refuses to plead guilty\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}