{"id":23251,"date":"2020-09-29T17:23:12","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T08:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/29\/amnesty-to-halt-work-in-india-due-to-government-witch-hunt"},"modified":"2020-09-29T22:41:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T13:41:35","slug":"amnesty-to-halt-work-in-india-due-to-government-witch-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23251","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty to halt work in India due to government &#8216;witch-hunt&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities froze bank accounts after criticism of government\u2019s human rights record<\/p>\n<p>Amnesty International has been forced to shut down operations in India and lay off all staff after the Indian government froze its bank accounts.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian enforcement directorate, an agency that investigates economic crimes, froze the accounts of Amnesty\u2019s Indian arm this month after the group published two reports highly critical of the government\u2019s human rights record.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/29\/amnesty-to-halt-work-in-india-due-to-government-witch-hunt\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities froze bank accounts after criticism of government\u2019s human rights recordAmnesty International has been forced to shut down operations in India and lay off all staff after the Indian government froze its bank accounts.The Indian enforcement d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1586,"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":[205,53,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amnesty-international","category-human-rights","category-india","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\/23251","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\/1586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23264,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23251\/revisions\/23264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}