{"id":956832,"date":"2025-08-22T12:14:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T06:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=956832"},"modified":"2025-08-22T12:14:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T06:44:55","slug":"microsoft-software-engineer-arrested-in-the-us-for-protesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/22\/microsoft-software-engineer-arrested-in-the-us-for-protesting\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft software engineer arrested in the US for protesting\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Microsoft employee has been arrested at the company\u2019s Redmond headquarters during protests against its cloud contracts with Israel. The demonstrations, led by the No Azure for Apartheid collective, escalated on Wednesday when protestors set up a \u201cLiberated Zone\u201d encampment and poured red paint over a Microsoft sign. Redmond Police said 18 people were arrested after some allegedly blocked a pedestrian bridge and attempted to build barriers using stolen furniture.<\/p>\n<p>Among those detained was Anna Hattle, a software engineer with Microsoft\u2019s cloud and AI division. Former Microsoft employees Hossam Nasr and Vaniya Agrawal were also arrested, according to organisers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Microsoft employee has been arrested at the company\u2019s Redmond headquarters during protests against its cloud contracts with Israel. The demonstrations, led by the No Azure for Apartheid collective, escalated on Wednesday when protestors set up a \u201cLiberated Zone\u201d encampment and poured red paint over a Microsoft sign. Redmond Police said 18 people were arrested after some allegedly blocked a pedestrian bridge and attempted to build barriers using stolen furniture. Among those detained was Anna Hattle, a software engineer with Microsoft\u2019s cloud and AI division. Former Microsoft employees Hossam Nasr and Vaniya Agrawal were also arrested, according to organisers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}