{"id":11995,"date":"2019-12-10T17:13:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T08:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/10\/india-braces-for-protests-over-citizenship-bill-excluding-muslims"},"modified":"2019-12-10T17:13:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T08:13:06","slug":"north-east-india-gripped-by-protests-over-citizenship-bill-excluding-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11995","title":{"rendered":"North-east India gripped by protests over citizenship bill excluding Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Region crippled by general strike over legislation making it easier for some other refugees to stay in country<\/p>\n<p>Protesters in north-east India have set fire to tyres and cut down trees to block roads in a shutdown across the region hours after lawmakers approved the government\u2019s new citizenship bill.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation, set to go before the upper house on Wednesday, will fast-track citizenship claims from refugees from three neighbouring countries &#8211; but not if they are Muslim.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/10\/india-braces-for-protests-over-citizenship-bill-excluding-muslims\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Region crippled by general strike over legislation making it easier for some other refugees to stay in countryProtesters in north-east India have set fire to tyres and cut down trees to block roads in a shutdown across the region hours after lawmakers &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":764,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,62,447,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-india","category-islam","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/764"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11995"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12011,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11995\/revisions\/12011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}