{"id":29063,"date":"2021-02-28T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T06:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/28\/delhi-muslims-fear-they-will-never-see-justice-for-religious-riot-atrocities"},"modified":"2021-02-28T15:00:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T06:00:06","slug":"delhi-muslims-fear-they-will-never-see-justice-for-religious-riot-atrocities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29063","title":{"rendered":"Delhi Muslims fear they will never see justice for religious riot atrocities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year after the city was engulfed by violence, victims are harassed into silence by police and find the law has turned against them<\/p>\n<p>For a year, Irfan has remained almost entirely in his house, too terrified to leave. A Muslim living in north-east Delhi, he says that his powerful Hindu neighbours, many belonging to the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), are keeping a close watch on him. Jobless and afraid, he spoke in whispers of his fear of being \u201celiminated\u201d at any time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI take a safe route to occasionally leave my house to see my lawyer,\u201d said Irfan, who requested a pseudonym for protection. \u201cI know that BJP leaders and their followers are after me so I move around very carefully. I have to stay alive at least to see those who attacked me are brought to justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/28\/delhi-muslims-fear-they-will-never-see-justice-for-religious-riot-atrocities\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year after the city was engulfed by violence, victims are harassed into silence by police and find the law has turned against themFor a year, Irfan has remained almost entirely in his house, too terrified to leave. A Muslim living in north-east Delhi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1090,"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":[353,516,62,447,433,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delhi","category-hinduism","category-india","category-islam","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\/29063","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\/1090"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29064,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29063\/revisions\/29064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}