{"id":17667,"date":"2020-04-29T05:15:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T20:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/28\/india-religious-freedom-narendra-modi-us"},"modified":"2020-04-29T05:15:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T20:15:26","slug":"india-should-be-placed-on-religious-freedom-blacklist-us-panel-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17667","title":{"rendered":"India should be placed on religious freedom blacklist, US panel says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commission says religious minorities face \u2018increasing assault\u2019 under Narendra Modi but state department unlikely to take action<\/p>\n<p>A US government panel has called for India to be put on a religious freedom blacklist over a \u201cdrastic\u201d downturn under the prime minister, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/narendra-modi\">Narendra Modi<\/a>, triggering a sharp response from New Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>The US commission on international religious freedom recommends but does not set policy, and there is virtually no chance the state department will follow its lead on India, an increasingly close US ally.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/28\/india-religious-freedom-narendra-modi-us\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commission says religious minorities face \u2018increasing assault\u2019 under Narendra Modi but state department unlikely to take actionA US government panel has called for India to be put on a religious freedom blacklist over a \u201cdrastic\u201d downturn under the pri&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1256,"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":[62,371,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-religion","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","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\/17667","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\/1256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17668,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17667\/revisions\/17668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}