{"id":70116,"date":"2025-03-14T03:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T18:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/13\/us-journalist-sues-indian-government-after-losing-his-overseas-citizenship"},"modified":"2025-03-14T03:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T18:15:09","slug":"us-journalist-sues-indian-government-after-losing-his-overseas-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70116","title":{"rendered":"US journalist sues Indian government after losing his overseas citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raphael Satter had his OCI card taken away after publishing a story critical of an Indian businessman<\/p>\n<p>A US journalist has taken the Indian government to court after his Indian overseas citizenship was unilaterally cancelled, after the publication of a story critical of a prominent Indian businessman.<\/p>\n<p>Raphael Satter, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/authors\/raphael-satter\/\">covers cybersecurity for the Reuters news agency<\/a> in the US, received a letter from India\u2019s ministry of home affairs in early December 2023, accusing him of producing work that \u201cmaliciously\u201d tarnished India\u2019s reputation and informing him that his Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card had been cancelled.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/13\/us-journalist-sues-indian-government-after-losing-his-overseas-citizenship\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raphael Satter had his OCI card taken away after publishing a story critical of an Indian businessmanA US journalist has taken the Indian government to court after his Indian overseas citizenship was unilaterally cancelled, after the publication of a s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"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":[62,669,238,433,61,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-journalist-safety","category-media","category-narendra-modi","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-news","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\/70116","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\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70117,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70116\/revisions\/70117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}