{"id":12282,"date":"2019-12-19T19:01:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T10:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/19\/india-citizenship-law-protesters-across-country-defy-ban"},"modified":"2019-12-20T03:27:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T18:27:22","slug":"india-citizenship-law-protesters-across-country-defy-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12282","title":{"rendered":"India citizenship law: protesters across country defy ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government orders ban on mobile internet as violence escalates<\/p>\n<p>Turmoil has continued to escalate across India over a controversial citizenship law that is seen as discriminatory against Muslims, as tens of thousands defied bans on public assembly to take to the streets, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2019\/dec\/19\/india-internet-curbs-are-part-of-growing-global-trend\">largest internet shutdown<\/a> yet was imposed and three more people were killed.<\/p>\n<p>Attempts by the authorities to clamp down on the demonstrations by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/18\/india-clamps-down-against-citizenship-law-protests\">banning large gatherings in <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/18\/india-clamps-down-against-citizenship-law-protests\">areas across the country<\/a> proved futile, as protesters gathered in their thousands in Delhi, Mumbai, Lucknow, Hyderabad, Bangalore and many other big cities.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/19\/india-citizenship-law-protesters-across-country-defy-ban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government orders ban on mobile internet as violence escalatesTurmoil has continued to escalate across India over a controversial citizenship law that is seen as discriminatory against Muslims, as tens of thousands defied bans on public assembly to tak&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":784,"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":[353,62,80,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delhi","category-india","category-protest","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\/12282","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\/784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12301,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12282\/revisions\/12301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}