{"id":36948,"date":"2026-01-21T03:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T03:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=36948"},"modified":"2026-01-21T03:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T03:05:07","slug":"portugal-cracks-down-on-far-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=36948","title":{"rendered":"Portugal cracks down on far-right"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Portuguese police said on Tuesday they had detained dozens of suspected members of a group that spread neo-Nazi propaganda and committed hate crimes against immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>The 37 suspects had &#8220;extensive criminal records and links to international groups that promote hate&#8221;, the judicial police said in a statement, adding that 15 people had been formally charged.<\/p>\n<p>The victims were mostly immigrants from Muslim-majority countries in South Asia, according to local media.<\/p>\n<p>The arrival of workers from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, has boosted Portugal&#8217;s foreign-born population in recent years to around 15 per cent of the total.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the far right has been gaining in popularity with anti-immigrant messaging. The authorities said the suspects founded a hierarchical criminal organisation to promote racial hatred and violence.<\/p>\n<p>Those arrested are due in court on Wednesday, suspected of spreading &#8220;neo-Nazi ideas&#8230; to intimidate and persecute ethnic minorities, particularly immigrants&#8221;.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portuguese police said on Tuesday they had detained dozens of suspected members of a group that spread neo-Nazi propaganda and committed hate crimes against immigrants. The 37 suspects had &#8220;extensive criminal records and links to international groups that promote hate&#8221;, the judicial police said in a statement, adding that 15 people had been formally charged. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}