{"id":23432,"date":"2020-10-04T14:30:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T05:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/oct\/04\/amnesty-specialises-in-hard-truths-no-wonder-modi-froze-it-out-of-india"},"modified":"2020-10-04T14:30:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T05:30:43","slug":"amnesty-specialises-in-hard-truths-no-wonder-modi-froze-it-out-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23432","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty specialises in hard truths. No wonder Modi froze it out of  India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forced shutdown of the human rights group will only increase international scrutiny of systemic mis-governance<\/p>\n<p>Speaking truth to power has ever been a fraught and dangerous occupation, as Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was recently reminded after he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/28\/alexei-navalny-angela-merkel-visit-berlin-hospital\" title=\"\">narrowly survived a poisoning plot<\/a> he says was directed from the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<p>Uncounted Kurdish <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/31\/outrage-over-denial-of-amnesty-for-turkish-political-prisoners\" title=\"\">activists languish in jail<\/a> for challenging Turkey\u2019s modern-day sultan. In Iran, human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/23\/uk-france-and-germany-summon-iranian-ambassadors-over-prisoners\" title=\"\">punished mercilessly<\/a> for championing women\u2019s causes. In Zimbabwe, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/aug\/24\/catholic-bishops-in-zimbabwe-speak-out-for-first-time-on-human-rights-abuses-mnangagwa\" title=\"\">Catholic clergy who condemn abuses<\/a> by Emmerson Mnangagwa\u2019s regime are accused of treason.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/oct\/04\/amnesty-specialises-in-hard-truths-no-wonder-modi-froze-it-out-of-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forced shutdown of the human rights group will only increase international scrutiny of systemic mis-governanceSpeaking truth to power has ever been a fraught and dangerous occupation, as Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was recently reminded af&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"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":[62,432,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-kashmir","category-narendra-modi","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\/23432","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23433,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23432\/revisions\/23433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}