{"id":54040,"date":"2023-04-03T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/03\/india-rahul-gandhi-appeals-against-defamation-verdict"},"modified":"2023-04-03T22:15:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T13:15:00","slug":"indias-rahul-gandhi-appeals-against-defamation-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54040","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Rahul Gandhi appeals against defamation verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition leader was found guilty last month, given suspended jail term and barred from parliament<\/p>\n<p>The Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi has appealed against his conviction for defamation, seeking to overturn a judgment that resulted in his expulsion from parliament a year before a general election is due.<\/p>\n<p>Gandhi, 52, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/23\/rahul-gandhi-found-guilty-of-defaming-narendra-modi-india-prime-minister-remark-2019\">was convicted last month<\/a> in a case brought by a state lawmaker from Narendra Modi\u2019s Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) after comments Gandhi made in a 2019 speech were deemed to be insulting to the prime minister and other people surnamed Modi.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/03\/india-rahul-gandhi-appeals-against-defamation-verdict\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition leader was found guilty last month, given suspended jail term and barred from parliamentThe Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi has appealed against his conviction for defamation, seeking to overturn a judgment that resulted in his expulsi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[62,1712,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","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\/54040","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54041,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54040\/revisions\/54041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}