{"id":53723,"date":"2023-03-23T19:42:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T10:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/23\/rahul-gandhi-found-guilty-of-defaming-narendra-modi-india-prime-minister-remark-2019"},"modified":"2023-03-23T22:43:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T13:43:09","slug":"rahul-gandhi-found-guilty-of-defaming-narendra-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53723","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Gandhi found guilty of defaming Narendra Modi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian opposition leader accused of implying prime minister was a criminal in remark made in 2019<\/p>\n<p>A court in India has found the opposition leader Rahul Gandhi guilty of defamation for a remark implying the country\u2019s prime minister, Narendra Modi, was a criminal.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Gandhi, 52, was sentenced to two years in prison but was granted bail after his lawyers announced their intention to appeal.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/23\/rahul-gandhi-found-guilty-of-defaming-narendra-modi-india-prime-minister-remark-2019\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian opposition leader accused of implying prime minister was a criminal in remark made in 2019A court in India has found the opposition leader Rahul Gandhi guilty of defamation for a remark implying the country\u2019s prime minister, Narendra Modi, was a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[62,433,1712,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-rahul-gandhi","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\/53723","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53735,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53723\/revisions\/53735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}