{"id":32055,"date":"2021-05-13T18:07:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T09:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/13\/india-covid-anguish-fuels-calls-to-release-human-rights-activists-from-jails"},"modified":"2021-05-13T18:07:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T09:07:05","slug":"indias-covid-anguish-fuels-calls-to-release-rights-activists-from-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32055","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Covid anguish fuels calls to release rights activists from jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters against Narendra Modi\u2019s controversial citizenship law remain detained in prisons rife with coronavirus<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An ashen-faced Natasha Narwal emerged on bail from Delhi\u2019s notorious Tihar jail on Monday evening. It was the freedom one of India\u2019s most prominent feminist activists had spent a year fighting for, but this was an exit steeped only in sadness; it had come 24 hours too late.<\/p>\n<p>A day earlier, Narwal\u2019s 71-year-old father, Dr Mahavir Narwal, had died of Covid-19, alone in a hospital intensive care unit in the city of Rohtak \u2013 another victim of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/30\/covid-victims-overwhelm-delhi-crematoriums\">devastating second wave<\/a> that has swept India in recent weeks. So far the country has registered more than 20m cases and a quarter of a million deaths, though most experts<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/01\/were-burning-pyres-all-day-india-accused-of-undercounting-deaths\"> believe the true toll to be far higher<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/13\/india-covid-anguish-fuels-calls-to-release-human-rights-activists-from-jails\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters against Narendra Modi\u2019s controversial citizenship law remain detained in prisons rife with coronavirusCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAn ashen-faced Natasha Narwal emerged on bail from Delhi\u2019s notorious Tihar jail&#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":[1066,53,62,914,433,80,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-human-rights","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","category-narendra-modi","category-protest","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\/32055","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=32055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32056,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32055\/revisions\/32056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}