{"id":52095,"date":"2023-01-23T16:59:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T07:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/23\/india-emergency-laws-to-ban-bbc-narendra-modi-documentary"},"modified":"2023-01-23T16:59:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T07:59:55","slug":"india-invokes-emergency-laws-to-ban-bbc-modi-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52095","title":{"rendered":"India invokes emergency laws to ban BBC Modi documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government accused of \u2018censorship\u2019 over ban on film about PM\u2019s role in violence during 2002 Gujarat riots <\/p>\n<p>The Indian government has invoked emergency laws to block a BBC documentary examining the role of the prime minister, Narendra Modi, during riots in the western state of Gujarat in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Controversy has erupted in India over the first episode of the two-part programme, India: The Modi Question, which tracked his rise through the ranks of the Bharatiya Janata party and his appointment as chief minister of Gujarat.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/23\/india-emergency-laws-to-ban-bbc-narendra-modi-documentary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government accused of \u2018censorship\u2019 over ban on film about PM\u2019s role in violence during 2002 Gujarat riots The Indian government has invoked emergency laws to block a BBC documentary examining the role of the prime minister, Narendra Modi, during riots &#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":[1762,62,238,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bbc","category-india","category-media","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\/52095","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=52095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52096,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52095\/revisions\/52096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}