{"id":12351,"date":"2019-12-21T19:31:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T10:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/21\/india-citizenship-law-modi-meets-ministers-as-protests-continue"},"modified":"2019-12-21T19:31:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T10:31:19","slug":"india-citizenship-law-modi-meets-ministers-as-protests-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12351","title":{"rendered":"India citizenship law: Modi meets ministers as protests continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 14 killed in clashes between police and protesters since law passed on 10 days ago<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s prime minister, Narendra Modi, met his council of ministers on Saturday to discuss security measures to end violent protests against a citizenship law, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/21\/indian-citizenship-law-six-killed-in-deadliest-day-of-protests-over-new-bill\">in one of the biggest crises <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/21\/indian-citizenship-law-six-killed-in-deadliest-day-of-protests-over-new-bill\">his Hindu nationalist government has faced<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At least 14 people have been killed in clashes between police and protesters since parliament passed the law on 11 December. Critics saying it discriminates against Muslims and undermines India\u2019s secular constitution.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/21\/india-citizenship-law-modi-meets-ministers-as-protests-continue\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 14 killed in clashes between police and protesters since law passed on 10 days agoIndia\u2019s prime minister, Narendra Modi, met his council of ministers on Saturday to discuss security measures to end violent protests against a citizenship law, i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":790,"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":[62,433,80,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-narendra-modi","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\/12351","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\/790"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12352,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12351\/revisions\/12352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}