{"id":12055,"date":"2019-12-12T03:17:39","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T18:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/11\/india-to-bring-in-law-denying-citizenship-to-muslim-migrants"},"modified":"2019-12-12T03:17:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T18:17:39","slug":"indian-citizenship-law-discriminatory-to-muslims-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12055","title":{"rendered":"Indian citizenship law discriminatory to Muslims passed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill will allow refugees from nearby states to become Indian but not if they are Muslims<\/p>\n<p>Indian lawmakers have approved legislation granting citizenship to migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan \u2013 but not if they are Muslim. Critics of the government said the legislation undermines the country\u2019s secular constitution, as protests against the law intensified in some parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The citizenship amendment bill seeks to grant Indian nationality to Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Jains, Parsis and Sikhs who fled the three countries before 2015.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/11\/india-to-bring-in-law-denying-citizenship-to-muslim-migrants\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill will allow refugees from nearby states to become Indian but not if they are MuslimsIndian lawmakers have approved legislation granting citizenship to migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan \u2013 but not if they are Muslim. Critics of the g&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":772,"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":[46,327,62,447,491,433,60,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-bangladesh","category-india","category-islam","category-migration","category-narendra-modi","category-pakistan","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12055","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\/772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12056,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12055\/revisions\/12056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}