{"id":12343,"date":"2019-12-21T13:40:11","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T04:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/21\/indian-citizenship-law-six-killed-in-deadliest-day-of-protests-over-new-bill"},"modified":"2019-12-21T13:40:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T04:40:11","slug":"indian-citizenship-law-six-killed-in-deadliest-day-of-protests-over-new-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12343","title":{"rendered":"Indian citizenship law: six killed in deadliest day of protests over new bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens injured in clashes with police in state of Uttar Pradesh as thousands also protest in Delhi<\/p>\n<p>Six people died and dozens were injured when Indian police clashed with thousands of protesters who again took to the streets in several parts of the country to oppose a new law they say discriminates against Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>There were standoffs on Friday at police barricades in half a dozen towns in Uttar Pradesh, India\u2019s most populous state, which has long been a tinderbox of communal tensions between majority Hindus and minority Muslims.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/21\/indian-citizenship-law-six-killed-in-deadliest-day-of-protests-over-new-bill\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens injured in clashes with police in state of Uttar Pradesh as thousands also protest in DelhiSix people died and dozens were injured when Indian police clashed with thousands of protesters who again took to the streets in several parts of the coun&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","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\/12343","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12344,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12343\/revisions\/12344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}