{"id":57269,"date":"2023-08-04T20:08:55","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T11:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/04\/rahul-gandhi-wins-supreme-court-appeal-against-defamation-conviction"},"modified":"2023-08-04T23:50:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T14:50:21","slug":"appeal-judge-suspends-rahul-gandhis-two-year-defamation-jail-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57269","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s supreme court suspends Rahul Gandhi\u2019s two-year defamation jail term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ruling allows leader of Congress party to return to parliament and contest national elections<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s supreme court has suspended <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/rahul-gandhi\">Rahul Gandhi<\/a>\u2019s two-year prison sentence for defamation, paving the way for him to return as an MP and to run in next year\u2019s general election.<\/p>\n<p>Gandhi, the leading face of India\u2019s opposition Congress party, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/23\/rahul-gandhi-found-guilty-of-defaming-narendra-modi-india-prime-minister-remark-2019\">given a two-year jail sentence for defamation in March<\/a>, in a case he alleged was politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/04\/rahul-gandhi-wins-supreme-court-appeal-against-defamation-conviction\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruling allows leader of Congress party to return to parliament and contest national electionsIndia\u2019s supreme court has suspended Rahul Gandhi\u2019s two-year prison sentence for defamation, paving the way for him to return as an MP and to run in next year\u2019s&#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":[62,433,1712,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57269","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\/57269","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=57269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57279,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57269\/revisions\/57279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}