{"id":56165,"date":"2023-06-23T04:11:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T19:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/22\/modi-us-visit-human-rights-protest-muslim-leaders"},"modified":"2023-06-23T04:11:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T19:11:03","slug":"modis-us-visit-prompts-condemnation-and-protest-from-muslim-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56165","title":{"rendered":"Modi\u2019s US visit prompts condemnation and protest from Muslim leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s prime minister \u2018has a notorious and extensive record of human rights abuses\u2019, said a statement from lawmakers<\/p>\n<p>Narendra Modi\u2019s state visit to the US has prompted condemnation and protest from Muslim leaders, lawmakers and other allies.<\/p>\n<p>US house representatives Rashida Tlaib, Representative Ilhan Omar, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cori Bush and Kweisi Mfume are among those who have said they will boycott the Indian prime minister\u2019s address to Congress on Thursday in light of the violence and repression of the media and religious minorities like Muslims, Christians, Sikhs and Dalits carried out under his rightwing nationalist government.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/22\/modi-us-visit-human-rights-protest-muslim-leaders\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s prime minister \u2018has a notorious and extensive record of human rights abuses\u2019, said a statement from lawmakersNarendra Modi\u2019s state visit to the US has prompted condemnation and protest from Muslim leaders, lawmakers and other allies.US house re&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3811,"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":[62,939,433,47,631,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-joe-biden","category-narendra-modi","category-us-news","category-us-politics","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\/56165","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\/3811"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56166,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56165\/revisions\/56166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}