{"id":13432,"date":"2020-01-30T15:48:16","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T06:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/30\/indian-primary-school-faces-sedition-charge-after-play-about-citizenship-law"},"modified":"2020-01-30T15:48:16","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T06:48:16","slug":"indian-primary-school-faces-sedition-charge-after-play-about-citizenship-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13432","title":{"rendered":"Indian primary school faces sedition charge after play about citizenship law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Children aged nine and 10 were interrogated by police after allegedly anti-government performance<\/p>\n<p>The Indian police are investigating a primary school for sedition over a student play which voiced opposition to the prime minister and his controversial new citizenship law.<\/p>\n<p>Students aged nine and 10 at Shaheen school in Bidar, in the state of Karnataka, were interrogated by police over several days for putting on a play that had a theme allegedly opposing the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and included \u201cslurs\u201d against prime minister Narendra Modi.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/30\/indian-primary-school-faces-sedition-charge-after-play-about-citizenship-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children aged nine and 10 were interrogated by police after allegedly anti-government performanceThe Indian police are investigating a primary school for sedition over a student play which voiced opposition to the prime minister and his controversial n&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","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\/13432","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\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13433,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13432\/revisions\/13433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}