{"id":48382,"date":"2022-09-11T02:52:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T17:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/10\/jailed-indian-journalist-gets-bail-almost-two-years-after-arrest-siddique-kappan"},"modified":"2022-09-11T02:52:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T17:52:56","slug":"jailed-indian-journalist-gets-bail-almost-two-years-after-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48382","title":{"rendered":"Jailed Indian journalist gets bail almost two years after arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Muslim journalist Siddique Kappan arrested while covering gang-rape and killing of Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh<\/p>\n<p> A journalist who has been in jail for nearly two years for trying to meet the family of a young Dalit woman allegedly gang-raped in Hathras in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) has been granted bail.<\/p>\n<p>The supreme court of India issued the bail order to Siddique Kappan, 43, a Delhi-based Muslim freelance journalist, on Friday. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/10\/jailed-indian-journalist-gets-bail-almost-two-years-after-arrest-siddique-kappan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muslim journalist Siddique Kappan arrested while covering gang-rape and killing of Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh A journalist who has been in jail for nearly two years for trying to meet the family of a young Dalit woman allegedly gang-raped in Hathras &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3155,"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":[1128,62,238,54,61,2410,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dalits","category-india","category-media","category-press-freedom","category-south-and-central-asia","category-violence-against-women-and-girls","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\/48382","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\/3155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48383,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48382\/revisions\/48383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}