{"id":15281,"date":"2020-03-01T20:45:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T11:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/01\/india-delhi-after-hindu-mob-riot-religious-hatred-nationalists"},"modified":"2020-03-01T20:45:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T11:45:13","slug":"inside-delhi-beaten-lynched-and-burnt-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15281","title":{"rendered":"Inside Delhi: beaten, lynched and burnt alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Violence in India\u2019s capital has left more than 40 dead and hundreds injured after a Hindu nationalist rampage, stoked by the rhetoric of Narendra Modi\u2019s populist government<\/p>\n<p>He lay in a bloodied ball on the floor, but the baton blows kept on coming. As the 30 strangers beat him without stopping, Mohammad Zubair closed his eyes, brought his forehead to the ground and prayed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe blows kept raining on my head, hands and back,\u201d said Zubair, 37. \u201cI did not ask them to stop beating me. I became silent, tried to hold my breath and stiffen my body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/01\/india-delhi-after-hindu-mob-riot-religious-hatred-nationalists\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violence in India\u2019s capital has left more than 40 dead and hundreds injured after a Hindu nationalist rampage, stoked by the rhetoric of Narendra Modi\u2019s populist governmentHe lay in a bloodied ball on the floor, but the baton blows kept on coming. As t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"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":[516,62,433,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hinduism","category-india","category-narendra-modi","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\/15281","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15282,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15281\/revisions\/15282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}