{"id":62560,"date":"2024-03-15T01:02:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T16:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/14\/india-block-documentary-sikh-activist-canada"},"modified":"2024-03-15T01:02:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T16:02:59","slug":"india-blocks-access-to-documentary-about-death-of-sikh-activist-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62560","title":{"rendered":"India blocks access to documentary about death of Sikh activist in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CBC aired an investigation into the death of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, whose killing the Canadian government suspects India was behind<\/p>\n<p>India has ordered prominent video sharing platforms to block access to a new Canadian documentary probing the assassination of a prominent Sikh activist in Vancouver, in a move that highlights India\u2019s mounting frustration with the allegations its government was behind the high-profile killing.<\/p>\n<p>The request <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/23\/india-emergency-laws-to-ban-bbc-narendra-modi-documentary\">marks the second time<\/a> in just over a year that India has sought to block a documentary critical of the Indian government or its leader, Narendra Modi. In 2023, India used emergency laws to block the distortion of the BBC documentary India: The Modi Question.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/14\/india-block-documentary-sikh-activist-canada\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBC aired an investigation into the death of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, whose killing the Canadian government suspects India was behindIndia has ordered prominent video sharing platforms to block access to a new Canadian documentary probing the assassinatio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":483,"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":[246,244,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-canada","category-india","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\/62560","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\/483"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62568,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62560\/revisions\/62568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}