{"id":17682,"date":"2020-04-22T23:29:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T14:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/22\/two-muslim-students-face-bogus-charges-of-inciting-delhi-riots"},"modified":"2020-04-22T23:29:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T14:29:28","slug":"two-muslim-students-face-bogus-charges-of-inciting-delhi-riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17682","title":{"rendered":"Two Muslim students face &#8216;bogus&#8217; charges of inciting Delhi riots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers say pair were peacefully protesting against Indian citizenship act<\/p>\n<p>Delhi police have been accused of slapping two Muslim student activists with \u201cbogus\u201d charges of conspiring to incite the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/01\/india-delhi-after-hindu-mob-riot-religious-hatred-nationalists\">riots<\/a>, the worst religious violence in India\u2019s capital for decades, and in which the police were accused of being complicit.<\/p>\n<p>Meeran Haider and Safoora Zargar, students at Delhi\u2019s Muslim-majority Jamia Millia Islamia University, were charged under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, which is usually reserved for terrorist activity and means they can be held for six months.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/22\/two-muslim-students-face-bogus-charges-of-inciting-delhi-riots\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers say pair were peacefully protesting against Indian citizenship actDelhi police have been accused of slapping two Muslim student activists with \u201cbogus\u201d charges of conspiring to incite the recent riots, the worst religious violence in India\u2019s cap&#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":[353,516,62,447,86,80,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delhi","category-hinduism","category-india","category-islam","category-law","category-protest","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17682","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=17682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17683,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17682\/revisions\/17683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}