{"id":8314,"date":"2019-08-31T22:17:39","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T13:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2019\/aug\/31\/india-almost-2m-people-left-off-assam-register-of-citizens"},"modified":"2019-08-31T22:17:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T13:17:39","slug":"india-almost-2m-people-left-off-assam-register-of-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8314","title":{"rendered":"India: almost 2m people left off Assam register of citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rights groups warn of possible humanitarian crisis as those left off list face statelessness and detention<\/p>\n<p>Almost 2 million people in north-east India face the threat of statelessness and detention after they were excluded from an official list designed to root out illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>Security was heightened in the border state of Assam on Saturday, as millions of people waited for the final release of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) \u2013 a major bureaucratic exercise that rights groups warn could create a humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2019\/aug\/31\/india-almost-2m-people-left-off-assam-register-of-citizens\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rights groups warn of possible humanitarian crisis as those left off list face statelessness and detentionAlmost 2 million people in north-east India face the threat of statelessness and detention after they were excluded from an official list designed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":452,"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":[59,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","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\/8314","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\/452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8315,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8314\/revisions\/8315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}